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Unhappy with a vote? Take a day off

Dec 9th, 2008 by Taylor Armerding

That’s a great idea that the gay marriage jihadists have. It’s not enough, in the wake of the democratic referendum in California to preserve traditional marriage, for them to harass and threaten the Mormon church or hurl insults at African Americans that would get anybody else branded as McCarthyite. The next big protest is for this Wednesday, Dec. 10, labeled a “Day Without a Gay.” Backers of same-sex marriage are being urged to skip work by “calling in gay,” to demonstrate how much America relies on gays.
This is terrific. But why let gays have all the fun, and get all the time off? I think the rest of us who are on the losing side of any democratic vote should do the same thing. Everybody who is unhappy that Barack Obama got elected should “call in Republican” - you know, just to demonstrate how much America relies on Republicans. Or, everybody in Massachusetts who was unhappy with the vote to preserve the 5.3 percent state income tax should “call in overtaxed,” just to show how much the state relies on people who are staggering under the tax burden.
It could go on and on - everybody who was unhappy that Deval Patrick got elected governor should “call in no-we-can’t.” I’m sure you can think of others. After all, democracy is so unfair, it ought to at least provide us all with a few more days off.

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  • jacrlsn
    I grew up knowing homosexuals as "queers" and nothing has happened to change that.
  • Tom Delaney
    Well, now we (CA & MA) have almost something in common.

    Unfortunately, the MA state legislature won't let the citizens of MA vote on this problem.

    Here is CA we've voted twice on this problem. First was Proposition 22 passed eight years ago defining marrriage as between a man and a woman. In May of this year, the CA Supreme Court overturned this decision; therefore we put it on the ballot in November as a Constitutional amendment. Thank God that Barack was on the ballot. The black population voted 70% to 30% in favor of defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Without this vote the amendment would never have passed.

    Think this "problem" is solved? Don't bet on it. It will be back in front of the CA Supreme Court again in the near future. So much for the 9th and 10th amendments listed in the "Bill of Rights."
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