Health care professionals: vote NO on Amendment 2

I received an email today from Tom Maher, Ballot Campaign Director for the ACLU in Miami. Having read my post about the Florida constitutional amendments, he's asked me to post a pledge for health care professionals to oppose the noxious Amendment 2, which would prohibit any kind of union, whether for love or benefits (health care, I mean) or whatever, outside of marriage. Remember, it's not just an anti-gay marriage measure -- it seeks to destroy any rights even heterosexual unmarried couples might have, and it would prevent employers in Florida from offering benefits to unmarried partners of employees, whether same-sex or not.

Anyway, I'm happy to comply with Tom's request. Below you should see the pledge, which (if the embed works properly) you can zoom, save, and even print for submission to Tom at the ACLU (per the instructions at the bottom of the page).

If no document appears below, please click this link to read the document online.

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Too stupid to breathe: John Stemberger

I'm not sure whether this falls into the category of "too stupid to breathe" or just "Fucking Asshole of the Day," but John Stemberger surely qualifies for the latter if not both.

Stemberger is the right-wing hatemonger (sorry to be redundant) behind Amendment 2, which would enshrine the already-existing ban on gay marriage in Florida's constitution. And he also is a massive fucking idiot.

Get a load of the shit Stemberger's spewing now:

John Stemberger, the force behind the proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot, cited cases in other states where similar proposals failed, resulting in teachers of students as young as 7 years old using books about same-sex marriage to promote diversity in families.

But, unlike in Connecticut, Massachusetts and California, where gay marriage was upheld by the courts, Florida has already outlawed same-sex marriages in state statutes.

That's not enough, argued Stemberger, head of yes2marriage.org and other organizations asking voters to approve the amendment. The constitutional provision is necessary to prevent judges from permitting gays to marry, he said. The result in other states, Stemberger said, is "an affront to parents' rights."

Stemberger trotted out some other fucked-up fundie whackjobs from Massachusetts who were "dismayed" to learn that their son's second-grade teacher read from a book where one prince married another prince after being rejected by a series of princesses.

Well, John, so fucking what? In essence, what Stemberger's saying -- and, presumably, all the supporters of Amendment 2 believe -- is that if this amendment fails, our children all will turn gay. Horrors! Where are my pearls to clutch?

The per sé absurdity of that argument hardly needs to be addressed but, for the sake of any other fundie whackjobs who may be reading this: YOU DON'T "TURN" GAY, you stupid, insipid fucktards. Nothing a student hears or reads will have any effect on whether or not that student is gay. Jesus H. Christ in a feather boa and tiara, how many fucking times do we have to say that before you'll finally get it through your unfathomably thick skulls?!?

These people are morons, plain and simple ... hateful, deranged, bigoted, ignorant morons. And John Stemberger outranks them all -- he's the real Mayor of Simpleton.

Recent polls show Amendment 2 with around 53% support, well short of the 60% needed for passage. Yep, looks like there's gonna be a hell of a lot of schadenfreude to go around on November 5 ... (but don't forget to VOTE!)