{"id":1078,"date":"2009-05-26T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:09:32","slug":"killing-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"killing california"},"content":{"rendered":"

California can’t make up its mind.\u00a0 They scare away conservatives (i.e. big business) by ratcheting up taxes and regulations, and then scare away gays by telling them (unlike in other states) that they aren’t welcome here<\/a>.\u00a0 Pretty soon there won’t be anybody left… there already aren’t enough left to keep our state from going into the red (fiscally, not politically – although that may happen if enough things like this keep happening).<\/p>\n

The ruling today was an obvious short term politically motivated “verdict.”\u00a0 By (default) declaring gay marriage illegal – but the previous marriages legal the court makes it abundantly clear that they’re caving to their republican\/conservative\/religious masters, while leaving the matter open for later for courageous courts to fix.\u00a0 If there was something deeply wrong with gay marriage the court wouldn’t have upheld the existing marriages that took place up until November 8th of last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If gay marriage was wrong, and damaged society (as the Mormons allege) we’d annul the marriages that happened between May and November to prevent this damage from occurring.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is also a travesty because now there will be an anti-prop 8 for us to vote on “as early as next year” wasting a ton of taxpayer money…and then another prop 8 from the Mormons to counter that two years later…\u00a0 So the court basically said “uh.. the people that pad our wallets (the court is 86% republican\/conservative) need us to do this…but…tell ya what… since we’re making voting decisions the rule of law – you can VOTE gay marriage back into law if you want….”\u00a0\u00a0 Of course this sets up a ludicrous system where our state could possibly have gay marriage voted in for two years…then out for two years…then in for two years…etc.\u00a0 Or at least until the US Supreme Court establishes that gay marriage is legal (which it will).\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if you think I’m being a “silly liberal” (I’m not liberal by the way), consider that the court decided along “party lines” 6-1 on the constitutionality of the amendment – but was UNANYMOUS in upholding the legality of existing marriages.\u00a0 Read between the lines here… it isn’t hard…\u00a0 Ruling that the marriages should be annulled\u00a0would have made a\u00a0moral judgement on homosexuality.\u00a0 Ruling along party lines on the constitutionality of the amendment essentially lets the Supreme Court highlight a technicality and wash its hands of the whole thing and throw it back to the voters (again…).\u00a0 Turning it from a judgement on gay marriage to a judgement on the ability of the populous to make constitutional amendments affecting certain classes of people.<\/p>\n

And, to use the conservatives argument – this leaves the ballot box open to make amendments like “murder is legal” or “Women can’t live in California” or any number of ridiculous things that “52%” of\u00a0Californians might vote as an amendment.\u00a0 All it takes apparently\u00a0would be a TV commercial convincing all the gullible California voters that (gasp!) their child might be taught by a\u00a0Woman (and some dark clouds) and then a pastor saying that “I might have to let a\u00a0woman into my church and\u00a0sit the pews!” and BAM –\u00a0Women aren’t allowed in California.<\/p>\n

“oh no, that wouldn’t happen because\u00a0Women are recognized by the state as a protected class of people”<\/p>\n

So are gays….\u00a0 “The California Supreme Court is the only state high court in the nation to have elevated sexual orientation to the status of race and gender. . .” <\/em>\u00a0Starting to see why this is a scary verdict?\u00a0 Convince more men to go out and vote on a proposition than women and you can ban women from California.\u00a0 … or do anything you want.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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by the way, saying an amendment is different than a revision.. totally weak.<\/p>\n

Amendment<\/strong>: A correction or alteration<\/p>\n

Revise<\/strong>: To reconsider and change or modify<\/p>\n

So if I amend the California Constitution to declare me the ruler of the Universe that is okay, after all, I didn’t revise the constitution, I just altered it… not modified it… because you know, modify and alter are totally not<\/em> synonyms<\/a>….\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder if they’re planning to change the California textbooks to reflect this change to the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California can’t make up its mind.\u00a0 They scare away conservatives (i.e. big business) by ratcheting up taxes and regulations, and then scare away gays by telling them (unlike in other states) that they aren’t welcome here.\u00a0 Pretty soon there won’t be anybody left… there already aren’t enough left to keep our state from going into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}