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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Politics Homophobes at the Post Office

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Wed, Sep 5 at 10:20 AM

Damn. I’m out of stamps… and now I better get to the Post Office before Saturday, or I’ll potentially face a gauntlet of homophobes. From Restore America:

Saturday, September 8th, marks the comencement of two full weeks of signature gathering outside post offices throughout Oregon.
Oregonians want to sign petitions 303 and 304 in order to prevent the gay and lesbian agenda from being imposed on all Oregonians without their say, or their permission.

They are more than a little disturbed that the legislature - led by liberal Portland legislators - ignored their VOTES in 2004 to preserve and protect marriage between a man and a woman only, and instead, participated in a deceptive and cabalistic strategem to legalize so called ‘same sex marriage’ by giving it another name.

Neither are they happy with the legislature’s granting of protected minority status to homosexuals in the face of heavy opposition and under the ruse of discrimination. Oregonians want to VOTE on these critical moral and culturally devastating government actions, whether homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and Portland liberals want them to or not. They do not want these bills to become embedded in Oregon law on January 1, 2008.

Also… who might they be referring to here? Restore America claims that “Defending traditional marriage and morality is not about discrimination,” and:

Oregonians should not be deceived or dictated to by a small but vociferous minority and their elitist friends in Portland crying “Wolf, wolf.” Instead, they should go to their local post office, sign the petitions, and restore good governance to the people of Oregon.

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Discrimination: "Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit".

Barring someone for marriage because they're gay, I'm pretty sure, qualifies just fine.

Posted by b!X | September 5, 2007 10:36 AM

Maybe I'm the only one, but is anyone else fascinated by the language of propaganda? "...deceptive and cabalistic strategem..." What a rich and descriptive turn of phrase.

Posted by Daaaaave | September 5, 2007 10:55 AM

Daaaaaaaave-I thought they were speaking in tongues. Or, er, writing in tongues.

Posted by Lelo | September 5, 2007 10:58 AM

Rich and descriptive... and misspelled. It's "stratagem", not "strategem".

They try to sound all edumacated and fuck up anyway.

Posted by b!X | September 5, 2007 11:01 AM

Kind of like calling Tom Potter a "traiter".

Posted by Dave Lister | September 5, 2007 11:04 AM

Well of course b!X you "moran", that's part of the allure.

There's an inability to communicate messages like these in their common parlance. Part of their brain wants to just say "Fuck off homos and queers" but some other part wants to soften the message and make it seem family friendly and urbane. It's an interesting psychological dynamic.

Posted by Daaaaave | September 5, 2007 11:13 AM

Meanwhile, anyone know the current status of the legal confusion about postal regulations barring signature gathering on postal property?

Posted by b!X | September 5, 2007 11:26 AM

How dare you correct his spelling, you elitist Portland liberals.

Posted by Beaton | September 5, 2007 12:06 PM

Yeeeah...'Cabalistic'. Are they calling our legislators a buncha Jewish mystics?

On a related note, a project I began (but never completed) during the last election cycle was attempting to compile statistics about the amount of crimes committed by married heterosexuals.

I mean, they almost certainly lead the field in spousal abuse, not to mention pretty much any other crime you could name, as there are so many of them, numerically.

It would be easy as pie to 'prove' with statistics that hetero marriage causes crime, but frankly, the data pile is enormous, and rarely classified by marital status.

Also, our friends at the Department of Justice sent me back emails that were the equivalent of staring at me, horrified, when I asked for such statistical data. Any ideas how we can turn this idea into a monster?
A monster we control, I mean...A helper monkey/good robot monster...

Posted by richbachelor | September 5, 2007 2:21 PM

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