They know you're on to them...the Google spreadsheet has moved to Atlanta, as they say.

Ha! I've also mysteriously stopped getting David Crowe's regular email missives, which I'd signed up for with my @portlandmercury.com email address. Good thing I'd signed up with another alias, too!

That was really exciting for a second—the power I wield!—but turns out I'm just an idiot who had an extra space in the HTML. Fixed it.

That was really exciting for a second—the power I wield!—but turns out I'm just an idiot who had an extra space in the HTML. Fixed it.

Remember, you must use your powers for good, or for awesome. Always choose awesome!

According to the spreadsheet, still only one tool, er, parishioner has signed up. Twice.

It's not an anti-gay campaign but a campaign to endorse the "We the people" clause of the constitution.

We the people of Oregon have already voted on some of the homosexual issues and we won. Homosexuals want to spit in our face and use the courts and/or Democrats to push their special interest group agenda into the lives of those that already voted against it.

When the majority of the people take this side it is us the queers hate - and the labeling and accusations come flowing - "anti-gay", "homophobics", etc.

The constitution does not protect unnatural sex choices. I have no problem what-so-ever with people doing whatever they want except if it includes animals or children.

My big complaint are the queers (they call themselves this so it's ok) want to force me, by law, to accept them, force me to hire them, and force me to approve of their choice. Sorry - too much BIG GOVERNMENT forcing already exists and we don't need more.

Yes, yes it is a "anti-gay" campaign.

Another way to look at it, I guess would be a "pro-descriminate against gays in any factor of life that you can get away with", which is, to me, a "anti-gay" stance.

Nobody's going to be forcing anyone to hire them.

I don't hate gays. I'm pretty sure most of them don't hate me either.

Two things:

1. "Final Petition Collection Plan 2: Collection Plan" is hilarious. And redundant. And hilarious.

2. This "majority rule" defense is SUCH bullshit. And it's not actually how a democracy works. (Didn't any of these people take Poli Sci? Or even a high school Government class?) Minorities require legal protection independent of things like ballot initiatives precisely BECAUSE they're minorities -- i.e., not the majority. These people seem to think Democracy and mob rule are the same thing.

(They're not.)

If all discrimination issues were handled via open ballot, I can almost guarantee you we'd still have separate drinking fountains. And "JustaDog" would be whining right now about how the law was forcing him to hire niggers. (They call themselves this so it's ok.)

As always, I love moral relativism.

It's cool, as per Amy's coy not-a-suggestion suggestion, to be a jerk to other people if they were jerks first! Cool, I say! And what better arbiter of cool than blogs and their comments? Truly.

I mean, it's not like Amy is playing into the petitioners' depiction of homophiles (to coin a term) as immoral or anything.

This "majority rule" defense is SUCH bullshit. And it's not actually how a democracy works. (Didn't any of these people take Poli Sci? Or even a high school Government class?) Minorities require legal protection independent of things like ballot initiatives precisely BECAUSE they're minorities -- i.e., not the majority. These people seem to think Democracy and mob rule are the same thing

It's just something someone once sagely called "the tyranny of the majority". In the "we're right at all costs" mindset of the sorts who carry this water, the authoritarian type, then there's nothing wrong with this.

As a native-born Oregonian and a long, long time resident of Portland I've seen every lousy idea that made it past the ballot box in the last 10-20 years excused by invoking The Will Of The Voter™, as though winning an election transforms a bad idea into a good idea. Crass thuggish pressure from the winners keeps dumb ideas fairly welded into the state code (remember that Marion County judge who got group intimidation last year? You're not even safe if you're a judge, man!)

When it gets down to it, saying "a majority of Oregonians" approved of a shameful law such as this is the same as saying "Suck it, losers. And if you try to change it, we're coming for you".

It's public policy by bullies.