Seriously California, what the fuck is wrong with you? I thought you were all granola-eating tree-hugging leftie communist pinkos. I thought you were all for the gay lifestyle. I thought you were all for equality. You guys used to piss off the social conservatives all the time, what with your San Franciscos and your Berkeleys.

But no, apparently you’re all a bunch of bigots. At least, 52% of you are.

Come on, what the fuck? Since when has California been a beacon for bigotry? Since when has California been a beacon for intolerance? Since when has California been a beacon for fear and hatred? That sort of thing we expect out of backwards states like Arkansas, but California?

Jesus Christ you Californians are fucking idiots.

This Proposition 8 has had its share of mouth-breathers come out of the woodwork. People like Howard Ahmanson Jr. who donated $1,395,000 to help pass Proposition 8. He’s said that his “goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives.” Fuck you, Howard Ahmanson Jr. Leave your “biblical law” out of my life. I suppose now you’re going to be campaigning for banning figs or some other bit of idiocy that’s in the bible.

People like Terry Caster and his family, along with his A-1 Self Storage business. The Casters donated $693,000 to help pass Proposition 8. He says that “without solid marriage you are going to have a sick society.” Go fuck yourself, Terry Caster. And fuck your son Craig too, who’s the founder and pastor of Family Discipleship Ministries in San Diego. Fuck you, Craig Caster.

This whole “gay marriage is dangerous to society and marriage” thing is horseshit. Seriously. How does two men getting married affect you in any way? Gay people are going to live together regardless, so does giving them a marriage certificate make your marriage unstable? “Hey shit John and Steve are married, let’s get a divorce.” What the fuck? When gay marriage was legal in California did heterosexual divorce rates go up? Face it, this whole Proposition 8 was just a way to get legalized bigotry. Now it’s perfectly okay to discriminate against gay people in California. Fuck you California.

Here’s a bit from Charlie Stross:

Here’s a good diagnostic test for whether a proposed law is bigoted: if it applies to a group of people, replace the subject group in question with “Jews” or “Blacks”, and see how it reads. If Adolf Hitler or the Grand Cyclops would approve, then it’s a fair bet that there’s something fishy about it. In the case of Proposition 8, how would you vote if it read, “Only marriage between Christians is recognized in California”? Or “Only marriage between white-skinned people is recognized in California”?

If you are a Californian voter and you vote for Proposition 8, then I’m afraid it means you’re a bigot. You favour depriving a subset of the population of their civil rights, you are willing to vote for a measure that will destroy existing marriages, and you will refuse to honour marriage contracts acknowledged elsewhere in the world. And you’ve tacitly admitted that your own marriage does need protecting (which is kind of pathetic).

You’re also providing aid and comfort to bigots and intolerant, murderous fundamentalists elsewhere on the planet, for which the rest of us (who have to deal with our own local nutjobs) will not thank you. When one state or nation passes a law like this one, it encourages activists elsewhere to campaign for their own equivalent. The organizations backing of Proposition 8 aren’t Californian — they’re mostly national or international, and they will take a victory in the polls in California and push it for all it’s worth elsewhere. So if you vote for Proposition 8 and it passes, you can rest assured that you’ve done your bit for bigotry not only at home, but in the rest of the world.

In case you’re wondering, here’s a list of troglodytes who donated money to help pass Proposition 8. Morons, each and every one of them.

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