{"id":1363,"date":"2009-05-27T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2009-05-27T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:48:21","slug":"proposition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/proposition-8\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Proposition 8&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who love hate&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s their new slogan. They were going go with either &#8220;Proposition 8-We Got Your Rights Right Here&#8221;, or &#8220;Proposition 8-Fu$k Off Fags&#8221;. The last one&#8217;s catchy. It sounds more like what they want to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ernie-bert.jpg\" alt=\"ernie-bert.jpg\" height=\"198\" width=\"270\" \/>(That does explain the <em>bathes<\/em> together)<\/p>\n<p>The state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that California voters had the authority to pass a constitutional amendment Proposition 8 that declared, &#8220;Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California&#8221;. However, they agreed to uphold the marriages that were performed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty simple. When do people give two flying shits about anyone&#8217;s relationship when it breaks no laws? When it&#8217;s a minority group, who some zealots find morally objectionable, and seek to morally control it. Take religion and god out of the equation for a moment. People who agree with prop 8 are basically saying, &#8220;You have equal rights and equal under the protection under the law, except here&#8221;. Why?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/george_takei.jpg\" alt=\"george_takei.jpg\" height=\"294\" width=\"271\" \/>(Live Long And Shocker)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s something prop 8 proponents can&#8217;t seem to answer. You&#8217;ll get a muddled &#8220;It&#8217;s unnatural&#8221;, &#8220;You can&#8217;t just change a definition because you want&#8221;, or &#8220;God doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s normal&#8221;. That&#8217;s because they have no answer in denying equal rights under law. Even the most &#8220;tolerant&#8221; are offering a modern version of &#8220;Separate but equal&#8221; like the civil rights movement with &#8220;Civil Unions&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/golfing-ellen.jpg\" alt=\"golfing-ellen.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"271\" \/>(Oh shit, now they want <em>golf<\/em> too?)<\/p>\n<p>So you can <em>have<\/em> water exactly like we have, just not from <em>our<\/em> fountain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look prop 8 proponents. You have to prove to me you&#8217;re <em>not<\/em> a bigot 1st. If you can do that, then we&#8217;ll chalk it up to you being uninformed of the basic constitutional rights of every American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lotr-sign.jpg\" alt=\"lotr-sign.jpg\" height=\"204\" width=\"272\" \/>(Middle Earth allows gay marriage)<\/p>\n<p>Meh, I blame the Mormons. They&#8217;re one letter away from being Morons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Lebowski&#8217;s Op-ed On The Sonia Sotomayor Selection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dancing-lebowski.jpg\" alt=\"dancing-lebowski.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"271\" \/>(Dance of the Dude)<\/p>\n<p>Hey man&#8230;yeah, well. The Dude abides&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She like, better know that you just don&#8217;t, come into people&#8217;s houses man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin&#8217; Eagles, man! Let me explain something to you Sonia. Um, I am not &#8220;Mr. Lebowski&#8221;. You&#8217;re Mr. Lebowski. I&#8217;m the Dude. So that&#8217;s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you&#8217;re not into the whole brevity thing.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, careful, man, there&#8217;s a beverage here! Mind if I do a J? You&#8217;re a supreme court judge and that would look really bad? Cool, I feel ya, and the Dude abides&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, that robe of yours really ties the room together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who love hate&#8230;&#8221; It&#8217;s their new slogan. They were going go with either &#8220;Proposition 8-We Got Your Rights Right Here&#8221;, or &#8220;Proposition 8-Fu$k Off Fags&#8221;. The last one&#8217;s catchy. 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