H8 ads
posted in Politics |California’s Proposition 8–the “marriage is to be defined as one man and one woman” amendment to the state constitution–is running neck-and-neck (sigh).
So the Prop 8 folks have spent $$ on Google Ads to show up on blogs.
So far, I’ve run into three blogs, on wildly diverse subjects, that have had to post disclaimers about the ads, because they have no control over which ads show up on their blogs.
I thought it was interesting that enough readers complained that the bloggers had to do this. Too bad all those people don’t live in California…
As for the proposition itself, and my feelings thereon? In a word: Ugh. OmegaDad and I have been together now for 15 years (yes!). The idea that giving someone who is gay or lesbian the same marital rights as we have will somehow destroy our marriage, cause our country to slide into moral decay, and lead to our dotter being OMG TEH GAY!!! just makes me roll my eyes.
I can’t remember where I read it, but it seems that the institution of heterosexual marriage is so devastated by having legalized gay marriages in one of the Scandinavian countries that…
…the heterosexual marriage rate has increased.
Whoa. Those bad, bad gay folks! Lookit what they’ve done!
John Scalzi, over at Whatever, has a number of good blog posts about the whole affair.
