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  California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

  http://bijansabet.com/post/34955509
  201 days ago in [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet · Authority: 258

  California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban: via lindsaycampbell: imarks: WONDERFUL NEWS. Our state now recognizes that an individuals capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise
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  California's Proposition 8 TV Ads

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  35 days ago in Ward's Kitchen · Authority: 3

  by Alissa Scheller On May 15, 2008, California became the second state (after Massachusetts) to legalize same-sex marriage. So called “activist” judges, ruled that statutes limiting marriage to a relationship between a man and a woman violated the equal protection clause of the California Constitution, which prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Since June 17, same-sex marriages have been recognized by the state of California. Proposition 8 is a ballot initiative that would introduce an amendment to the California Constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Both the Yes on 8 and No on 8 campaigns have used media outlets, such as television ads, to promote their viewpoints. One television ad sponsored by Let California Ring features a woman going to through various obstacles to reach her wedding, and concludes with the statement: “What if you couldn’t marry the person you love?” Other No on 8 television ads parody the Mac vs. PC ads, and focus on how leaving the state constitution as it is would have no effect on traditional families. Interestingly enough, few of the No on 8 ads actually depict gay people — the very people the campaign is fighting for. The ads mainly feature heterosexual couples with gay children, friends, or family members urging voters to ensure that all people are treated equally. One ad has two women (who are very clearly not a lesbian couple) talking about the issue. Another has Superintendent of Schools, Jack O’Connell, telling voters that Prop. 8 has “nothing to do with schools or kids” (after a Yes on 8 ad asserted — falsely — that if the proposition failed, schools would be required to teach children about same-sex marriage). The entire ad does not mention the words “gay,” “lesbian” or “same-sex.” One Yes on 8 ad features a child telling her mother that she learned about same-sex marriage in school (the impossible circumstance to which the No on 8 ad with Superintendent O’Connell was referring). Another shows San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom, proclaiming to a celebratory crowd (after same-sex marriage was legalized in May) that “It’s going to happen whether you like it or not,” and later — again, falsely — claiming that if Prop. 8 fails, its supporters will be sued for their personal beliefs. Again, there are no depictions of actual gay people. I think that this exclusion of gay couples from the television ads is because it could easily backfire — use words like “discrimination” or “exclusion” and people are more willing to be on your side. Use words like “gay marriage” and, well, a lot of people will disagree with you. However, by not showing gay people in their ads about gay people, it seems to me as if the campaigns don’t want gay people to become the focus of an issue about gay people. To be quite honest, as a Californian, I fervently hope that Prop. 8 fails, but I think both campaigns have made mistakes in their television ads. I understand the reasoning behind the exclusions of gays from television ads on both sides — to make the ads more appealing to heterosexual voters — but I find it interesting that in the ads, Californians rarely get to hear from the main benefactors of same-sex marriage. (The photo of demonstrators in favor of gay rights and gay marriage was taken in San Francisco; the photo is by crichton91 via Flickr, using a Creative Commons license. For more on the gay rights debate, please see: "The Story, the Truth and Fred Phelps." Also, please see the iVoryTowerz blog's "Isn't Love All You Need?") media television advertising television ads gay rights elections California Proposition 8 same sex marriage Add to Technorati Favorites
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  California upholds right of gays to be married

  http://tonyocruz.com/?p=876
  201 days ago in tonyocruz.com · Authority: 104

  In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation. Thus said judges of the California supreme court in its decision today recognizing the right of gays and lesbians to marry, and to have equal rights as heterosexuals. Homosexual Americans hailed the decision as a victory for the cause of equality. CBS News called it a monumental victory for gay rights. Read the Fox News report here. Get the full copy of the decision here. Pundits meanwhile expect gay marriages to become an election issue.
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  Overnight - A roundup of news items that you might have missed

  http://proctoringcongress.blogspot.com/2008/05/overnight-rou...
  201 days ago in Watching Those We Chose · Authority: 63

  Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in California: The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. The case involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The court in a 4-3 ruling issued the long-awaited decision on its Web site, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage, reports CBS affiliate KPIX in San Francisco. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Ron George. Hezbollah Gains Concessions: Hezbollah will "return things" to normal in Lebanon after the government reversed key decisions that had triggered days of bloody conflict, the militant group's deputy leader said Thursday. The comments by Sheik Naim Kassem came after a meeting between Hezbollah representatives and a high-powered Arab delegation that is in the country trying to find a solution to Lebanon's worst crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. "The Cabinet's reversal of the two decisions is a natural step to return things to the way they were before the two decisions," Kassem said. "We want a political settlement that will lead, in the end, to there being no victor and no vanquished." Home Foreclosures Continue to Rise: More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday. Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in April, up 65 percent from 147,708 in the same month last year and up 4 percent since March, RealtyTrac Inc. said. Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida were among the hardest hit states, with metropolitan areas in California and Florida accounting for nine of the top 10 areas with the highest rate of foreclosure, the company said. Oil pipeline disaster in Nigeria: At least 100 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the local Red Cross says. The explosion tore through the Ijegun suburb, engulfing schools and homes after a bulldozer burst the pipeline, reports Reuters news agency. Changes in the Kremlin: There are many familiar faces in the new cabinet of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, yet his appointment of two former Kremlin aides suggests he wants to strengthen his powers at the expense of the new presidency. There has been a generally good reception of the new government from business and diplomatic circles. Igor Sechin was the deputy chief of Vladimir Putin's presidential administration. He was an enforcer, who also chaired Russia's biggest state oil company, Rosneft, at the time when it controversially absorbed the Yukos empire. Yukos was broken up and its billionaire boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky jailed. Mr Sechin has been seen as something of a grey cardinal, opposed to the eventual nomination of Dmitry Medvedev as former President Putin's chosen successor. His new post - deputy prime minister - is a minor demotion. Along with the removal of two of Mr Putin's closest allies - the former justice minister, and the head of the domestic security service - Mr Sechin's move suggests Mr Putin may be starting a process of mutual distancing from the hardest of the hardliners. The price of tortillas, a staple food in Mexico, are set to rise 18% in the next few weeks, an industry group says. Thousands of people protested against tortilla price rises in Mexico last year and they have become a big political issue. The National Chamber for the Tortilla and Dough Industry told Reuters that prices would rise from 8.5 pesos (est $.82) a kilo now to 10 pesos in June. West Virginia faculty demands University President resign: The West Virginia University faculty demanded on Wednesday that the president of the university, Mike Garrison, quit over the awarding of a degree to Gov. Joe Manchin III’s daughter, the second call for his resignation in 10 days. The nonbinding resolution, was approved, 565 to 39, at a meeting for all faculty members. Last week, the 114-member Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly to demand that Mr. Garrison resign. Mr. Garrison has refused, and Mr. Manchin and the university board of governors, appointed by the governor, have continued to support him. “W.V.U. cannot recover from this crisis under the leadership that created it,” Prof. Boyd Edwards said at the University Assembly, which had not met since 1977. In a statement, Mr. Garrison restated his intention to remain, adding, “I am dismayed that it happened under my administration, and I’m committed to making sure nothing of this sort happens here again.” In April, an independent panel found that the university gave Mr. Manchin’s daughter, Heather Bresch, an executive M.B.A. degree that she had not earned. A hundred years or 2013, whichever comes first Speaking to an audience in Ohio today, McCain gazed into his crystal ball and waxed poetic about 2013, and the end of his first term and how the troops are home, Iraq is a democracy and violence only happens in occasional, rather than daily, bursts (pardon the pun). Not a peep about how any of this would be achieved, of course, but hey, details, shmetails. I haven't seen anyone else speculate about it, but his choice to back off of his hundred years of war might have had something to do with the state where he was speaking. Ohio, you might remember, was home to the 19 Marine Reservists who died in the first days of August in 2005 - 14 were lost in a single attack, blown up in an amphibious landing craft with a top speed of about 20 miles per hour, and a flat bottom to really get the most out of an explosive impact...I doubt the people of Ohio, who have suffered greatly the folly of the decision made by other people to invade and occupy Iraq, are much interested in hearing about a hundred years of war if those spasms of violence are going to keep killing Ohio's children. Look at it this way - If I remember that horrible August so vividly, do you think that the good people of Ohio have let it slip from memory? With Memorial Day fast approaching? No way in hell. File this under the fact that blind pigs score the occasional acorn Chris Matthews had roast wingnut for dinner tonight. He called right-wing radio screecher Kevin James out, took him down and wouldn't let him up. It would have been embarrassing, except the dillweed didn't know enough to STFU and kept yelling "he was an appeaser!" to Matthews insistent question "what did Chamberlain do?" After the guy hangs himself, Matthews explains the difference between talking and appeasing. Go, Tweety! I'm not letting you out of the box just yet, but I'll say "good on ya" when it's deserved. So...Good on ya, Tweetster! (Transcript and video at the link.) Senate Passes Farm Bill with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority. The house earlier passed it with similar margins, and now it goes to the president for his expected, but futile, veto. The bill includes a $10.3 billion increase in spending on nutrition programs, including food stamps, that supporters called “historic,” as well as increases for rural development and land conservation programs. Waltz with Bashir is going to be the film everyone talks about at Canne. It is an animated feature that brings to the screen the internal struggle of a middle age man who, as a young man participated in the slaughter of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon in 1982. The film doesn't yet have an American distributor, but look for that to change given the films message and the reaction of those who saw it at Canne. McCain adviser forced out over conflict of interest republican consultant Craig Shirley was asked to step down from his official role in the campaign on Thursday, following a story in Politico.com asking questions about Shirley's dual role consulting for both the campaign and for an independent "527" group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict of interest policy barring such arrangements.
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  The Nightowl Newswrap

  http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/2008/05/nightowl-new...
  201 days ago in Blue Girl, Red State · Authority: 212

  Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in California: The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. The case involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The court in a 4-3 ruling issued the long-awaited decision on its Web site, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage, reports CBS affiliate KPIX in San Francisco. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Ron George. Hezbollah Gains Concessions: Hezbollah will "return things" to normal in Lebanon after the government reversed key decisions that had triggered days of bloody conflict, the militant group's deputy leader said Thursday. The comments by Sheik Naim Kassem came after a meeting between Hezbollah representatives and a high-powered Arab delegation that is in the country trying to find a solution to Lebanon's worst crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. "The Cabinet's reversal of the two decisions is a natural step to return things to the way they were before the two decisions," Kassem said. "We want a political settlement that will lead, in the end, to there being no victor and no vanquished." Home Foreclosures Continue to Rise: More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday. Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in April, up 65 percent from 147,708 in the same month last year and up 4 percent since March, RealtyTrac Inc. said. Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida were among the hardest hit states, with metropolitan areas in California and Florida accounting for nine of the top 10 areas with the highest rate of foreclosure, the company said. Oil pipeline disaster in Nigeria: At least 100 people have been killed in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the local Red Cross says. The explosion tore through the Ijegun suburb, engulfing schools and homes after a bulldozer burst the pipeline, reports Reuters news agency. Changes in the Kremlin: There are many familiar faces in the new cabinet of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, yet his appointment of two former Kremlin aides suggests he wants to strengthen his powers at the expense of the new presidency. There has been a generally good reception of the new government from business and diplomatic circles. Igor Sechin was the deputy chief of Vladimir Putin's presidential administration. He was an enforcer, who also chaired Russia's biggest state oil company, Rosneft, at the time when it controversially absorbed the Yukos empire. Yukos was broken up and its billionaire boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky jailed. Mr Sechin has been seen as something of a grey cardinal, opposed to the eventual nomination of Dmitry Medvedev as former President Putin's chosen successor. His new post - deputy prime minister - is a minor demotion. Along with the removal of two of Mr Putin's closest allies - the former justice minister, and the head of the domestic security service - Mr Sechin's move suggests Mr Putin may be starting a process of mutual distancing from the hardest of the hardliners. The price of tortillas, a staple food in Mexico, are set to rise 18% in the next few weeks, an industry group says. Thousands of people protested against tortilla price rises in Mexico last year and they have become a big political issue. The National Chamber for the Tortilla and Dough Industry told Reuters that prices would rise from 8.5 pesos (est $.82) a kilo now to 10 pesos in June. West Virginia faculty demands University President resign: The West Virginia University faculty demanded on Wednesday that the president of the university, Mike Garrison, quit over the awarding of a degree to Gov. Joe Manchin III’s daughter, the second call for his resignation in 10 days. The nonbinding resolution, was approved, 565 to 39, at a meeting for all faculty members. Last week, the 114-member Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly to demand that Mr. Garrison resign. Mr. Garrison has refused, and Mr. Manchin and the university board of governors, appointed by the governor, have continued to support him. “W.V.U. cannot recover from this crisis under the leadership that created it,” Prof. Boyd Edwards said at the University Assembly, which had not met since 1977. In a statement, Mr. Garrison restated his intention to remain, adding, “I am dismayed that it happened under my administration, and I’m committed to making sure nothing of this sort happens here again.” In April, an independent panel found that the university gave Mr. Manchin’s daughter, Heather Bresch, an executive M.B.A. degree that she had not earned. A hundred years or 2013, whichever comes first Speaking to an audience in Ohio today, McCain gazed into his crystal ball and waxed poetic about 2013, and the end of his first term and how the troops are home, Iraq is a democracy and violence only happens in occasional, rather than daily, bursts (pardon the pun). Not a peep about how any of this would be achieved, of course, but hey, details, shmetails. I haven't seen anyone else speculate about it, but his choice to back off of his hundred years of war might have had something to do with the state where he was speaking. Ohio, you might remember, was home to the 19 Marine Reservists who died in the first days of August in 2005 - 14 were lost in a single attack, blown up in an amphibious landing craft with a top speed of about 20 miles per hour, and a flat bottom to really get the most out of an explosive impact...I doubt the people of Ohio, who have suffered greatly the folly of the decision made by other people to invade and occupy Iraq, are much interested in hearing about a hundred years of war if those spasms of violence are going to keep killing Ohio's children. Look at it this way - If I remember that horrible August so vividly, do you think that the good people of Ohio have let it slip from memory? With Memorial Day fast approaching? No way in hell. File this under the fact that blind pigs score the occasional acorn Chris Matthews had roast wingnut for dinner tonight. He called right-wing radio screecher Kevin James out, took him down and wouldn't let him up. It would have been embarrassing, except the dillweed didn't know enough to STFU and kept yelling "he was an appeaser!" to Matthews insistent question "what did Chamberlain do?" After the guy hangs himself, Matthews explains the difference between talking and appeasing. Go, Tweety! I'm not letting you out of the box just yet, but I'll say "good on ya" when it's deserved. So...Good on ya, Tweetster! (Transcript and video at the link.) Senate Passes Farm Bill with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority. The house earlier passed it with similar margins, and now it goes to the president for his expected, but futile, veto. The bill includes a $10.3 billion increase in spending on nutrition programs, including food stamps, that supporters called “historic,” as well as increases for rural development and land conservation programs. Waltz with Bashir is going to be the film everyone talks about at Canne. It is an animated feature that brings to the screen the internal struggle of a middle age man who, as a young man participated in the slaughter of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon in 1982. The film doesn't yet have an American distributor, but look for that to change given the films message and the reaction of those who saw it at Canne. McCain adviser forced out over conflict of interest republican consultant Craig Shirley was asked to step down from his official role in the campaign on Thursday, following a story in Politico.com asking questions about Shirley's dual role consulting for both the campaign and for an independent "527" group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict of interest policy barring such arrangements.
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  California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

  http://jermspeaks.tumblr.com/post/34965343
  201 days ago in Jerm-Speaks · Authority: 1

  California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban: lindsaycampbell: imarks: WONDERFUL NEWS…. “Our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation,” the CA Supreme Court wrote.
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  ローカルニュース

  http://ameblo.jp/yucchany/entry-10097195660.html
  201 days ago in ゆっちゃにぃ's World · Authority: 7

  カリフォルニアワイン＝CHEAP JUG. が常識だったが、この方のおかげでカリフォルニアワインはフランスに負けないよとなったね。 ROBERT MONDAVI氏、ご自宅にて静かに永眠された９４歳。 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iLeyD9cvLCrW_-aC3bDsk0jIv46QD90MVSP03 長生きのこつはワインのポリフェノールですか？ 彼のおかげで世界がカリフォルニアワインを注目するようになったってのは事実であって、 UC DAVISは色んなLABが有名なこのあたりの州立校だけど、彼ってば、太っ腹！ 35ミリオン寄付して、Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Scienceっての １０月にオープンするそうな。 雨人の金持ちが日本人の金持ちと違うとこはこの社会貢献の考え方だろうね。 スポーツ選手もハリウッドも必ず天災の後やら、自分の思う慈善事業に 多額のそれもおもっきし多額の寄付する、まぁ税金対策でしょうが、どちらにしても これって悪いことでないし？ 日本人の有名人は寄付しましたニュースあまり聞かないのはなんでだろ？ 好きだったよね？いつも一緒に飲んでたの思い出した。 冥福を祈って乾杯です。 あ、でもすまん、暑くて料理もできひん、ワインも冷えたの。 久々。Mondaviでないけどな。ふふ。 最近はまってる、フリッセてんこ盛り。エンダイブの仲間と思うのだけど、 おしゃれレタスって日本語で呼ばれてるってまじかよ。 これってちょっと苦いけど、肝とかレバーとかキノコとか一緒に食べると美味しい。 ありがとうよ～Gochi。 Mr. Mondavi, Miss you and RIP. んだが、昨日だったか、このあたりでは特に注目されてたあれ。 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/15/national/main4099765.shtml 社内で朝から判決でた瞬間、仕事中見てるなよつう話しだけど、 ぎゃぁ～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～と歓声。 何事よって思ったけどそういうことか。 カリフォルニア州最高裁判所は、全米でマサチューセッツ州に続く２番目の州として ゲイレズビアンの婚姻を認める判決が出たわけね。 もう社内のカミンガウトできてない＝クローゼットゲイのやつらは静かに、 自分のデスク周りに彼女と、彼女と一緒に養子縁組した子供の写真をべたべた貼り無くってる彼女、 ２３年間彼と一緒にいるのよ、と写真見せて紹介してくれた彼、 アジア人のゲイを紹介してと言われた震えた彼、 拍手喝さいであった。 あたしのデスク周りのエリアは、そんなの関係ね～って感じだったが、 これからどうなるの？一夫多妻制もＯＫな事になるって事？ いえ、今回の視点は、この同性愛者を守る法律Domestic Partner Lawがあるから どうして州法で守る必要があるのないのでもめてたらしいけど、 ようは権利は男同士でもオトコとオンナのカップルと同じように、表面的には守られてるのだが、 会社でも普通に人事がサポートしてるしな、 いわいる精神的な問題で、一般の男女の結婚とは違うって事の差別がある！！と いうことらしいんだけど。権利を主張するの好きだからね。 カリフォルニアは、マサチューセッツと違って、 この同姓愛ってのは、いわいる人種、 性別と同じカタゴリーで守られるはずのものだと判断したらしい。 意味分からん。もう本人達には死活問題、分かるよ。で、なんだかなぁっていうより これいったいどこまで行くの？ってのが気になるとこかな。 でもこれは、合衆国であるからして、カリフォルニア州法って事で アメリカ連邦法律は当てはまらない。ややこしいな。大変ね。 そんなことよりも、あたしは気になる。 Whole FoodsやTrader Joe'sの卵が減ること、動物愛護なんちゃら団体から締め出された カリフォルニアの養鶏場で鶏が苛められてると発覚した有名なとこからの卵は一切 売りません！だって。 んでさ、ブッシュよ！パパと相談して、いざ！ 石油ほしさに張り切ってＧＯＧＯ！とイラクへ行ったはいいけど、 ここんとこのガソリンの高さ、どうよ、あんたのアメリカもちびるね。 全米でもサンフランシスコは一番目くらいに高いらしい。平均ガロン４ドル近く。 税金が高いからだね他の州より。 でもまぁ、日本のガソリンにかかる税金の半分以下の税金率だからそうでもないっていえばそうなんだけど、こちとら、車なしにはどこでも行けない田舎だから日本にいるより公共バス電車利用できないんだからガソリン代はもっと大変な問題かも。 しかも笑えるのはさすがアメリカ。 カリフォルニア州内にあるダサい、じじばば経営のスタンドでは、 最高金額が3.99までのパンプマシンしか設置されてないから、 もうすぐ新しいものにするか、閉鎖するか、の瀬戸際にあるんだと。 がははは、ちょっと前、はガロン１ドルだったような気がするんだけど。 ２ドルくらいになったとき、わめいた記憶があるし。 この6－7年の間に倍の値段になったよね？ 今じゃあ～た、一番安いうちの近所の穴場！ 先週は$3.79でした。ちなみに今朝はもう$3.99. COSTCOはやっぱし安いけどすんげー並ぶのよ。配給か？みたいに。並んだことないけど。 でも$3.89だったわ。 ガソリンが4ドルもするなんて想像も出来ない時代だったのね。おばかさん。 しかし一番辛いローカルニュースはさ、やっぱしね、これ。 減ったとはいえどもやはり多いしインド人エンジニアの聖地シリコンバレー。 インド村部落が出来るのでなんせ空気が、臭い。廊下をサリーで散歩の如く裸足で歩いてる インド本国から息子に呼び寄せられたおばーちゃん多し。 ハイテク軍団の奥様方、インド人軍団の夏本番。どんだけ？というほどいるのに、 毎年アメリカにいる間寒いからさ冬にしこむのが義務付けられてるのか！ ちゅうくらい春に見かける奥様は全員妊婦。冗談でないのよ。 同じインド系でも医者や教授、弁護士が多い東海岸はどうなんだろ？ また出産ラッシュが始まるよ。ストップざ、インド人口増加。助けて。 この暑さ、まだ足りひんらしい、社内のカヴィィーちゃん、これ暑くない、ナイスだと。 インドの気温って想像したくない。 おつかれさん。
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  Californians Did Not Speak; Just a Few Judges

  http://mop-jdh.blogspot.com/2008/05/californians-did-not-spe...
  201 days ago in Mormon On Politics · Authority: 2

  Today, on a 4-3 margin, the California supreme court ruled that a ban on gay marriage was unlawful. This is liberalism at it finest. The will of the people be damned, provided they can get four our of seven judges to favor their agenda. Why shouldn't this important topic be given a fair hearing in public, at the ballot-box? Governor Schwarzenegger supports the ruling and will fight against a public referendum. Why? Because he will lose. This ruling places special interests over the broader interests of a state or a nation. The court wrote: "Our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation." This could not be further from the truth. It is 100% about sexual orientation. It is not platonic roommates or siblings that share living quarters that are cheering this ruling. This is all about "normalising" homosexuality. Same-gender attraction advocates are "quick to demand freedom of speech and thought for themselves, but equally quick to criticize those with a different view and, if possible, to silence them by applying labels like 'homophobic.'" The Biblical position on personal weakness is clear. From 1 Corinthians 10:13: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." Everyone has challenges they struggle with. Homosexuality is only one of a host of challenges some people struggle with. Just because someone has same-gender attraction does not launch a forgone conclusion that these tendencies need to be embraced and acted upon as a life defining event and mandatory lifestyle. The Church's position on this is clear: sexual relations are permitted within the bonds of marriage, between a husband (male) and (his) wife (female), exclusively. Celibacy is expected for anyone that is not married. There may come a time when the bulk of the citizens of the nation will favor homosexual marriage (heaven forbid), but that time has not come. Instead, we are seeing radical judges creating laws (not their job), regardless of the will of the people.mormon politics nra conservative lds terrorism transportation information security united nations republican technology baseball soccer football hockey

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