A Day without Gays is the softer side of the pink McCarthyites behind the anti-Prop 8 campaign.
“In order for this movement to continue it can’t just be about marching and being pissed off. It’s got to be creative in different ways to get into the hearts and minds of moderate voters,” said daywithoutagay.org creator Sean Hetherington.The Los Angeles comedian and his boyfriend, Aaron Hartzler, put the focus on volunteering, although one of the groups behind the November 15 rallies, jointheimpact.com, urges people to shut businesses and avoid spending anything.
Which of course, belies the violence and intimidation that has been the hallmark of the Hot Pink Hate directed against anyone that dares to question the redefinition of marriage since the overwhelming passage of Prop 8 in California.
Let’s be clear here. The vast majority of reasonable people who voted for Prop 8 are not voting against gay rights. Indeed, they have no problem with some sort of legislation of civil unions or domestic partnerships that will allow any number of couples to secure property rights, inheritance rights and medical decisions. Just don’t call it “marriage” nor lie about the consequences of legally enforcing the fallacy that same-sex couples are the same as opposite-sex couples.
The softer pink side today certainly doesn’t help people like Marjorie Christofferson, the 77 year old Mormon who exercised her right to donate $100 as a private citizen to the pro-Prop 8 side and has now been hounded from her job.
For me, I’m going Christmas shopping today after work. The Pink McCarthyites are welcome to try and target me.
Comment by apotheosis on 12/10 @ 9:25 am #
Don’t the people who do these sorts of things run the risk of not being missed all that much?
I don’t recall the economy going down in flames when Chipotle restaurants across the nation closed for a day in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants. People went to Subway instead.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 12/10 @ 9:42 am #
One of my co-workers is out this morning. I’m gonna ask him just why he took the morning off…
Comment by Rob Crawford on 12/10 @ 9:45 am #
On an unrelated issue — WTF do you do with a co-worker who’s an endless talker? There’s one in my office who, I swear, has spent the last hour babbling away. The first half hour it was to one of the other developers, and God help me if I could figure out a reason for that discussion. The second half hour was on a completely different matter, unrelated to our project. I have to hear the endless babble, because her cube is right next to mine and this person has never mastered the concept of INSIDE VOICE.
I could slap on headphones, but, really, should I have to?
Comment by mojo on 12/10 @ 9:45 am #
Does it count if you call in semi-morose?…
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Comment by SarahW on 12/10 @ 10:17 am #
@3 Rob – Does she also talk really, really fast? I hate that.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/10 @ 10:20 am #
There used to be a kind of stigma to calling in sick to my office but today … yikees!
Comment by Curmudgeon on 12/10 @ 10:42 am #
I don’t recall the economy going down in flames when Chipotle restaurants across the nation closed for a day in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
They did? Upon confirming this, I’ll never eat at one again.
Comment by Kirk on 12/10 @ 10:55 am #
Back in my old college days, the Gay Alliance used to have “blue jean days.” On these days the student body was encouraged to show its solidarity with the gay community by wearing blue jeans to class. Of course, few of us had anything other than blue jeans to wear anyway.
Still, the day did have an impact on student wardrobes as all of us hateful homophobes wore whatever pair of plaid, sweat pant, or corduroy we could find. How many people with the sniffles, who would normally call in sick when they feel so poorly, will now show up?
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/10 @ 10:55 am #
Does it count if you call in semi-morose?…
Call in emo?
Comment by MarkD on 12/10 @ 10:56 am #
There’s a new Mexican place in town that I’ve tried to go to, twice. Not open for lunch, not open on Mondays. Is this some sort of gay Mexican protest, or am I just unlucky?
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/10 @ 11:33 am #
Welcome to Assfuckistan!
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/10 @ 11:35 am #
How many people with the sniffles, who would normally call in sick when they feel so poorly, will now show up?
Sore throats…and asses!
Comment by happyfeet on 12/10 @ 11:40 am #
I didn’t know Chipotle did that. Fuck that action I think. In other news everybody is here today. All present and accounted for. Traffic was “not good” NG says so there wasn’t near the impact of the mexican one. I think cause people think it’s stupid, this gayless day thing. My friend P is at work today and he saw Milk and sounded a lot activisty after with all sorts of musings about “the movement” and he’s rebuilding some disk array today.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/10 @ 3:05 pm #
I don’t call in gay…EVAH!
Comment by SuprKufr on 12/10 @ 3:37 pm #
“Just don’t call it ‘marriage’ nor lie about the consequences of legally enforcing the fallacy that same-sex couples are the same as opposite-sex couples.”
That’s quite a retarded thing to write. So many questions it spawns!
1. Muslims can marry 9 year old little girls. Let’s just assume that the female can’t consent to that arrangement, since we also assume that they can’t consent to getting screwed by a 46-year-old man. Is it okay with you if that is called “marriage” (because it is)?
2. Many other cultures practice polygamy. Is it okay with you if that is called “marriage” (because it is)?
3. Many marriages in this country suck outright. Is it okay to call the most abusive, dysfunctional, and destructive marriages in the country “marriage” (because they are)?
4. When you write “same” you mean “as good as”. Is the healthiest gay relationship still not as good as the sickest, most revolting straight marriage?
5. How is it a “fallacy” to state that gay relationships can be just as good as straight relationships?
6. What are the “consequences” that one would lie about? It seems to me that the most logical consequence is that the animus toward gay people in our culture would decrease. Perhaps that is something that you cannot stand to live with?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/10 @ 3:41 pm #
ha ha, and there’s the nut of the SSM agenda. “You will love us! IT’S TEH LAW!”
Comment by happyfeet on 12/10 @ 3:44 pm #
You use lots of quotation marks. And you number your questions even the ones that are really stupid. I’m gonna go have a cigarette and not think about your stupid questions.
Comment by apotheosis on 12/10 @ 4:15 pm #
Because, y’know, no pussy.
Wait, that’s just like regular marriage, DAMN YOUR LOGIC!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 12/10 @ 4:42 pm #
Not in this country. Not in this culture.
Not in this country. Not in this culture.
Why don’t you go to the countries and cultures where those things are practiced and make your arguments?
Comment by Darleen on 12/10 @ 8:00 pm #
suprkufr
When you stop tossing out straw arguments, it comes down …
Are the sexes different? It is a fallacy to say they are the same, thus a relationship that combines both sexes is always going to be different than a relationship of the same sex. Thus marriage can’t be SSM. Give legal protections and call it something else. We don’t use “male” and “female” interchangebly so don’t use marriage and [same sex arrangement] interchangebly.
Even polygamy combines both sexes. There has never been any historical arrangment of SSM. Ever. Even in cultures where homosexual behavior was accepted and celebrated.
And with that historical precedent of polygamy, why should SSM be granted (on the rationale that sex is an irrelevant standard) and not number of partners?