the resistance in Kansas

[fflo]

upsidedownblue just posted directions to his buddy's mother bit for TV in the Kansas queer hatred resistance. kansansforfairness.org; click on "See & Hear;" check out the Kathy Dorman commercial. The preacher they've got in the second clip strikes a slightly condescending tone with his reference to some christian notion of something like "do it for the least of us," and the other parents who have an ad seem compelled to offer their certainty that sexual orientation is not a choice (don't get me started), but all in all I'm glad to see something of a fight being put up.

Not that it'll work.

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[paperkingdoms]

It *is* nice to see support happening... but there's really no chance at all for this thing to not pass. The best I'm hoping for is some showing by people who disagree. Knowing how split it is in Lawrence... yeah. Not hopeful. Voting anyway.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Our county was one of the very few places in Michigan that our spankin' new anti-gay state constitutional amendment didn't pass. Of course we're still subject to its provisions. The latest bad news is that the U. of Michigan doesn't seem to intend, as it said it would, to fight the decision of the state's attourney general that they're no longer allowed to offer domestic partner benefits. The ACLU has taken up the cause, though.

Maybe it's good for all this stuff to get on the books so that, uh, ... we'll have concrete targets, and point-to-able evidence of discrimination?

[paperkingdoms]

The part of it that really bothers me, at the moment, is that it makes *all* domestic partnership benefts illegal. Yes, I support the right of everyone to marry... but gay marriage is already illegal in KS, and we're not particularly close to being able to change that. But it's going to pass on the "gay" side of things, and affect all sorts of people. The state's largest employers *do* offer domestic partner benefits... and won't be able to anymore.

Really, I don't see what business the government has recognizing anyone's marriage... but that's another rant entirely. ;^)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my take on it is that there should be no governmental differentiation between people based on their relationship status in any way. It's not as if we need procreation to be encouraged, anyway.

And insurance should have nothing to do with relationships, or employment, either. Of course if it were up to me insurance wouldn't even exist, dangit. What a crock.

[paperkingdoms]

::nods::

... and I think I'm gonna stop before I'm consumed in a cloud of sarcasm. ;^)