Subway is made of awesome

When a Subway franchise decided to pony up money in support of Proposition 8 – which would deny marriage rights to gay people, the corporate office not only made a donation against Proposition 8, but reminded the franchise that they couldn’t use the Subway logo for their donation, then even modified their employee handbook to ban discrimination against gay people.

I’m going to get a foot long for lunch today just for that reason alone.

Remember – faux terrorist attacks aren’t cool, even to Mormons

OK – I think people have a reason to be legitimately pissed at the Mormon church having it’s members spend so much time and money to ban gay marriage in California. But that’s no excuse to make fake terrorist attacks by mailing in white powder to Mormon temples.

All that does is reinforce the “wah, we’re a prosecuted people” complex, and makes the powder senders look like jerks.

Mormons ask: Hey gay folks, why the hate? Oh, yeah – Prop 8.

Evidently the Mormon church doesn’t get it that when you have members of your church speak out against gay marriage, gay people start speaking out against the Mormon church.

Yeah. I can’t imagine why gay people are so angry, not after the LDS church encouraged members to campaign and donate money to get Proposition 8 (which banned gay marraige in California) passed.

Turns out Prop 8 hurting small business

I hadn’t thought about what California Proposition 8 might have to do with business, until my friend NYPinTA (I’ll leave the acronyms up to you) pointed out that there are businesses that will be negatively effected by Propsition 8’s likely passing:

“I have done a gay wedding every week,” he said. “And so it’s very disheartening, because other business is very slow.”

Even as opponents of the measure officially conceded defeat on Thursday, California business owners — particularly those in the marriage business — were trying to determine how many wedding cakes would now go unsold and how many tuxedos unrented.

Arturo Cobos, a manager at Kard Zone in the city’s traditionally gay Castro neighborhood, said he had done “big sales” of same-sex wedding cards and other trinkets since marriages began in June, but had recently stopped stocking new goods.

“We were afraid that they would pass Proposition 8,” Mr. Bobos said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”

Irony. In the end, it was economic power that started the civil rights movement going with the ban on buses – makes you wonder if the same will be the case here. Money does talk.

CA Attorney General won’t go on gay marriage license raids

While the status of Prop 8 in California is still waiting for the absentee ballots to seal the deal, the Attorney General of CA about isn’t going to remove the marriages of 18,00 gay couples.

Touch of class.

California Prop 8 still too close to call

California Proposition 8 which would define marriage as only between a man and a woman is still undecided.

Perhaps that tells the mood of the country more than anything else right now.

Turns out Prop 8 may fail – thanks to a little help

Here’s an interesting idea. If you ask people “Do you think that marriage should be between a man and a woman”, they’ll say yes a little over 50% of the time. However, if you ask them “Should marraige rights be removed from homosexuals”, the majority of people will say “No.”

So is it possible that California Attorney General Jerry Brown purposely phrased California’s Proposition 8 that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California” to help it fail?

If so, Mr. Brown may be more clever than gay marriage opponents knew.