Comments on: Liveblogging Day 3 Part IV: Therese Stewart Rocks … http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks Perry v. Schwarzenegger: Tracking the right-wing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tire ratings guide http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-234811 tire ratings guide Wed, 11 May 2011 14:49:13 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-234811 <strong>Blog Browser...</strong> [...]while the sites we link to below are completely unrelated to ours, we think they are worth a read, so have a look[...]... Blog Browser…

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]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195385 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:17:37 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195385 As one transman to another- AMEN! (Pun intended, lol) At my own wedding, the pastor read a verse from the Bible which is, ironically enough, normally read at straight weddings. "But Ruth replied, "Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Where you go, I will go; where you lie, I will lie down with you. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God."- Ruth 1:16 Ruth was speaking to Naomi. As one transman to another- AMEN! (Pun intended, lol)

At my own wedding, the pastor read a verse from the Bible which is, ironically enough, normally read at straight weddings.

"But Ruth replied, "Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Where you go, I will go; where you lie, I will lie down with you. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God."- Ruth 1:16

Ruth was speaking to Naomi.

]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195384 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:10:38 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195384 As a believer in God and many principles of the Bible, I'd still like to point out one thing. The Bible was written by MEN...and for who knows how many years prior to the actual writing, it had been passed down the same way all stories were....by mouth. MEN were given free will, and the ability to form their own opinions. So while I definitely believe in the majority of the principles of the Bible, and find the majority of Its images both beautiful and moving, I do also think that those same people probably interjected their own opinions. Ever played the game "Telephone"? To paraphrase a statement by comedienne Margaret Cho, I'm pretty sure if God came back right now, he would say to the bigoted Christians, "That's not what I meant!" As a believer in God and many principles of the Bible, I'd still like to point out one thing.

The Bible was written by MEN…and for who knows how many years prior to the actual writing, it had been passed down the same way all stories were….by mouth. MEN were given free will, and the ability to form their own opinions. So while I definitely believe in the majority of the principles of the Bible, and find the majority of Its images both beautiful and moving, I do also think that those same people probably interjected their own opinions. Ever played the game "Telephone"?

To paraphrase a statement by comedienne Margaret Cho, I'm pretty sure if God came back right now, he would say to the bigoted Christians, "That's not what I meant!"

]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195383 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:59:22 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195383 Funnily enough, their promoted hatred of us homos brings us unwanted and unwarranted attention by people who single us out every single day. I'm not on TV telling people I'm a homo, yet I get (at the very least) looked at funny by at least one person per day....He put himself in this position and wants to whine when people have something to say back to him about it. HE promoted HIS OWN publicity, and by doing so exposed US to retribution from anti-gay marriage supporters. Wonder what his response would be if someone pointed that out to him? As I said before.... total dumba$$. Funnily enough, their promoted hatred of us homos brings us unwanted and unwarranted attention by people who single us out every single day. I'm not on TV telling people I'm a homo, yet I get (at the very least) looked at funny by at least one person per day….He put himself in this position and wants to whine when people have something to say back to him about it.

HE promoted HIS OWN publicity, and by doing so exposed US to retribution from anti-gay marriage supporters. Wonder what his response would be if someone pointed that out to him? As I said before…. total dumba$$.

]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195382 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:53:48 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195382 Especially considering it was his personal choice to make himself a part of this fight. If you feel that way Tam, you should have stayed home and kept your effing mouth shut. Dumba$$. Especially considering it was his personal choice to make himself a part of this fight. If you feel that way Tam, you should have stayed home and kept your effing mouth shut. Dumba$$.

]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195381 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:44:07 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195381 SNAP! You're my new favorite person. Couldn't have phrased any of this better myself. SNAP!

You're my new favorite person. Couldn't have phrased any of this better myself.

]]> By: jack http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195380 jack Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:39:51 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195380 "Lawyer now quotes Tam saying “gay marriage will encourage kids to expeirment with the gay lifestyle — which carries with it all sorts of disease.” Tam confirms that he said this, and then says it means “that kids will be able to have an option. That they will be able to choose who they can marry. My daughter told me kids in her school that girls who had problems dating boys, can just go ahead and try girls. So children did experiment.” " Wake up Tam! Kids experiment! You can't stop that! And like 90% of the women I know that have ever kissed or messed around or slept with another woman are still completely STRAIGHT. Hence my personal addition to the phrase "Don't knock it til you try it"...I always like to add "Don't buy it til you try it either." Legalizing gay marriage gives us the option to marry legally, it doesn't give you an option for how you really feel or who you really are. I was an FTM transman who still identifies as lesbian before gay marriage was legalized, and after I got gay married....surprise! Still an FTM lesbian! There is only one choice in this matter; be who you are or be what everyone wants you to be. And even that has no bearing on this case whatsoever; this case is about the constitutionality of discrimination based on sexuality. Actually, at its core, it's about the constitutionality of discrimination, period. Funny how they seem to skip right over that with their Save the Children smear campaign. "Lawyer now quotes Tam saying “gay marriage will encourage kids to expeirment with the gay lifestyle — which carries with it all sorts of disease.” Tam confirms that he said this, and then says it means “that kids will be able to have an option. That they will be able to choose who they can marry. My daughter told me kids in her school that girls who had problems dating boys, can just go ahead and try girls. So children did experiment.” "

Wake up Tam! Kids experiment! You can't stop that! And like 90% of the women I know that have ever kissed or messed around or slept with another woman are still completely STRAIGHT. Hence my personal addition to the phrase "Don't knock it til you try it"…I always like to add "Don't buy it til you try it either."

Legalizing gay marriage gives us the option to marry legally, it doesn't give you an option for how you really feel or who you really are. I was an FTM transman who still identifies as lesbian before gay marriage was legalized, and after I got gay married….surprise! Still an FTM lesbian! There is only one choice in this matter; be who you are or be what everyone wants you to be. And even that has no bearing on this case whatsoever; this case is about the constitutionality of discrimination based on sexuality. Actually, at its core, it's about the constitutionality of discrimination, period. Funny how they seem to skip right over that with their Save the Children smear campaign.

]]> By: Prop 8 Trial « Obey This Journal, M.D. http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195379 Prop 8 Trial « Obey This Journal, M.D. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:47:46 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195379 [...] trait cannot be changed – like race.  One thing I found interesting about Dr. Tam’s video testimony was when he was asked about civil rights: “I believe civil rights to be about skin color [...] [...] trait cannot be changed – like race.  One thing I found interesting about Dr. Tam’s video testimony was when he was asked about civil rights: “I believe civil rights to be about skin color [...]

]]> By: “Home Court Advantage” – Can Gays Be a Suspect Class? « Prop 8 Trial Tracker http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195378 “Home Court Advantage” – Can Gays Be a Suspect Class? « Prop 8 Trial Tracker Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:01:47 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195378 [...] trait cannot be changed – like race.  One thing I found interesting about Dr. Tam’s video testimony was when he was asked about civil rights: “I believe civil rights to be about skin color — [...] [...] trait cannot be changed – like race.  One thing I found interesting about Dr. Tam’s video testimony was when he was asked about civil rights: “I believe civil rights to be about skin color — [...]

]]> By: Prop 8 Trial: the SCOTUS looms large | TheWorldPolitics http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2010/01/13/liveblogging-day-3-part-iv-therese-stewart-rocks/#comment-195377 Prop 8 Trial: the SCOTUS looms large | TheWorldPolitics Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:01:36 +0000 http://prop8trialtracker.com/?p=326#comment-195377 [...] of the LGBT community, or the motivations of the proponents of Proposition 8, such as this particularly odious video of the bigoted and homophobic rationale of one of Proposition 8’s key backers. And the [...] [...] of the LGBT community, or the motivations of the proponents of Proposition 8, such as this particularly odious video of the bigoted and homophobic rationale of one of Proposition 8’s key backers. And the [...]

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