A comprehensive list of things I don't understand..

..would prove impossible to be contained in all of cyberspace,so I'll just have to deal with one thing at a time.

Question: How did proposition 8 even get on the ballot,and once that was accomplished ,how the HELL did it actually pass??

As near as I can figure,a single group of religious fanatics,which shall remain nameless,gathered together in fellowship,and decided that their brand of theology should override one of the most dearly held tenets of our democracy,..Equal Rights for all.

Don't get me wrong..I will steadfastly defend their right to revolve their own lives around a book that some farm-boy-turned-con artist magically discovered under a tree,while stumblin' around down in the pasture one fine day happily listening to the voices in his head.
..Freedom of religion,and all that.

Freedom this,and freedom that.
The point is,that nobody has the right to usurp any one's Constitutionally guaranteed rights,..PERIOD!
Hence my confusion over the passage of a Constitutional amendment designed specifically for that purpose.

The fact that I'm not included in the exclusion,has no relevance whatsoever.
What is profoundly relevant to me,..to all of us really,..is that any segment of the population can be singled out by well-funded special interests,and deprived of their birthright under color of law.

The California Supreme Court has wisely decided to hear arguments in opposition to this travesty,tentatively scheduled for March of next year.
At that time,in my considered opinion,two things need to happen.

1) Proposition 8 will be overturned,on the basis of all things that a civilized democracy demands of itself,..and,

2) Subsequently,any religious organization that chooses to violate the Separation of Church and State, (another fundamental premise upon which this country was founded), by actively engaging in political lobbying,will be summarily stripped of it's tax-exempt status.

You wanna play?..You gotta pay!

It's Thursday,..and life is fed to the teeth with self-righteous assholes in Sling's Domain.