The people who would love to repeal the proposition 8 measure are really driving me crazy.

I was planning to blog this morning about stopping my whorish ways, which really have gotten out of control. I’ve put the kabosh on my hookups which are just that, which never go anywhere other than a fleeting makeout/BJ session or swordfighting action. What I really want is a relationship, but I won’t blog about that because I’m too pissed about these knuckleheads who want to overturn the right for gays to marry in the state of California.

NPR’s Forum on KQED in San Francisco had a show featuring Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good (no comment on that name, I’ll let it speak for itself) and Kate Kendell, the exec director of National Center for Lesbian Rights (GO dykes!), who is also on the executive committ for the No on 8 proposition.

What really has me spinning is that those who would vote yes on 8 have this huge, high hard one for the kids. The kids this, the kids that. For the record, what the fuck is wrong with kids being exposed to a couple of people who love each other and have devoted and committed their lives to each other?

May (aka The Catholic dude):

“It has always been in the public interest to encourage men and women to marry and to be accountable for their children,” May says. “The court has severed that and eliminated that as a public interest. It has reached a point of indifference, and now four out of 10 kids are born out of wedlock. Forty percent of children are living away from their fathers. The Brookings Institute has established that the decline in marriage is responsible for the increase in the number of children living in poverty.”

Again, WTF does that have to do with two people getting married, and how does that affect the millions of straight couples in California who are already married (separated and divorced folk fucking up the curve, notwithstanding?)

Kendell (aka, the dyke we love):

“Your parade of horribles has nothing to do with expanding the right of marriage to include same-sex couples. The fundamental right that has been extended to same-sex couples to marry is not about severing the recognition of the importance of marriage to the stability of a family. It’s about recognizing and expanding that to include same-sex couples who form relationships, who become economically interdependent, many of them who have children, live in neighborhoods, and who support their community, and who now finally in the state of California are supported and recognized as having their relationship recorded under civil law the same dignity respect, and security as anyone else.”

I’ve already voted via absentee, cause I’m too lazy to actually get up and haul ass into the booth. And if you have any spare scheckles in your change purse, to PLEASE donate whatever you can to keep the right for gays and lesbians the freedom to marry the one they love in the state of California.

UPDATE: I found this tidbit from a San Francisco CBS affiliate. Check it out.