Arnold Schwarzenegger signs bill SB777

[amanda6035]

Okay, so even if the source is a bit looney (I found it on another message board), I would really hope that banning the terms mom and dad, husband and wife, and letting little boys use the girls bathroom is not REALLY what's going to happen.

I'm all for equal opportunity. I'm all for gays and bis, and lesbians and transsexul, transgendered, and whatever else is out there having the same opportunity as the rest of us. But to take away the rights of those who DONT believe in that lifestyle is just pushing discrimination in the opposite direction. (I think the article said that somewhere....) Why cant there be a happy medium?

True, it must be alot like integration. I hope we as a society have learned from that experience. There's a big difference in sitting in the same classroom as a little black girl (or little white girl) and not being able to use terms like "mom and dad." Hell, doesnt California have a large spanish speaking population? Their inanimate objects have a GENDER to them - el and la, what's going to happen next? actually ban spanish from school because genders have a negative conotation for those of alternative lifestyle???? in CALIFORNIA??? yeah right.

[Kevin]

Amanda, I think whoever wrote that stuff is completely out to lunch. I can't see these statutes leading to the conclusions you propose.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Amanda, I think whoever wrote that stuff is completely out to lunch. I can't see these statutes leading to the conclusions you propose.

They won't, but it's the ability of those out-to-lunchers to inflame panic like this that can in turn ensure that certain blocs of voters turn out in droves for elections, ala Karl Rove's success with putting the "marriage amendment" on the ballot in key states in the 2004 presidential election... frightening.

[DeltAlum]

...and one "giant leap" for...

The publishers of the article.

Talk about begging the question and glittering generalities.

[SHEETCAKE]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Okay, so even if the source is a bit looney (I found it on another message board), I would really hope that banning the terms mom and dad, husband and wife, and letting little boys use the girls bathroom is not REALLY what's going to happen.

I'm all for equal opportunity. I'm all for gays and bis, and lesbians and transsexul, transgendered, and whatever else is out there having the same opportunity as the rest of us. But to take away the rights of those who DONT believe in that lifestyle is just pushing discrimination in the opposite direction. (I think the article said that somewhere....) Why cant there be a happy medium?

True, it must be alot like integration. I hope we as a society have learned from that experience. There's a big difference in sitting in the same classroom as a little black girl (or little white girl) and not being able to use terms like "mom and dad." Hell, doesnt California have a large spanish speaking population? Their inanimate objects have a GENDER to them - el and la, what's going to happen next? actually ban spanish from school because genders have a negative conotation for those of alternative lifestyle???? in CALIFORNIA??? yeah right.

When fascism comes to America....