ugh a guest just insisted on telling me why she voted for prop 8 (to keep men from molesting little boys) despite my repeated protesting that I didn't want to discuss it because I am one of "those people". When it finally sunk in what I was saying she said, "oh well I think gay women are OK." I came so close to telling her how glad I am my vote will cancel hers out.

I never knew the molesters were interested in marrying the little boys?

yeah but there's no point arguing with crazy people. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

I voted absentee, Evidnetally there weren't lines by lunch time most places, lots of earlier voting around here.

I kinda... stepped in it I think with two of my co workers, in my same department. I was on break and they were talking about Amendment 2 and how they hoped it passed (it's the same as Prop 8). And they kinda looked at me and I said "oh I'm against that."

And they kinda looked at me and I said "Well I think anybody who wants to get married should and the way the amendment is worded it could invalidate current common law marriages and partnerships between opposite and same sex couples."

They countered with domestic partnerships and living wills and I explained that it wasn't the same and that they can be challenged and marriage comes with rights and I didn't think Seperate but equal was right.

But it finally ended. They grew up being taught that marriage is a man and woman and that's what they think. I also mentioned that some of the couples who were the first to get married in Canada and California had been together 40 or 50 years (I was fuzzy on the exact years) and when they were first together they had to worry about physical threats, losing their job, maybe being arrested. just for being together.

Anyway I'm not sure if they will be friendly with me but I'll see.

This is why people climb towers with loaded weapons.

I think to some people, those homosexuals are like, theoretical monsters. This is the second time someone found it hard to believe that I, standing right in front of them, could possibly be gay. Maybe they can sense that I love the cock.

I also mentioned that some of the couples who were the first to get married in Canada and California had been together 40 or 50 years (I was fuzzy on the exact years) and when they were first together they had to worry about physical threats, losing their job, maybe being arrested. just for being together.

You attempted to use logic.

That's never going to work until it directly applies to them and even then, it's a toss-up.

My favorite election moment so far has been Abby coming home from (elementary) school and saying, "Some kids at school were going around today saying they were voting for McCain and I told them they weren't voting for anyone, since they weren't eighteen yet and they thought I was lying because they thought their parents were going to be able to cast votes for everyone in the family."

Heh. Civics 101-- take that you little right-wingers!

I could kinda buy that except for the openly gay man who works in our organization. And it's not a large one so they have almost daily contact with him. But I guess he can still be theoretical.

Oh also I heard that even though you can use just about anything as proof of id (seriously neighborhood association card works) some college students were turned away when they showed their student id.

But the local news and the paper online were saying that the mistake had been corrected and please come back and vote.

We are not going to fuck this up! We SWEARS!!!!

That's not enough! Pinky-swear, young lady!

I foolishly thought I might have been able to convince him to vote No; I told him he could have all the moral oppositions he wanted, but there was no reason to make it a legal issue.

It's a sensible tack to take. Never mind, you gave it a shot.

for so long it's been choosing the lesser of two evils

You know, if they actually had voted in the lesser of those two evils...