Gods, I love the smell of wingnut heads exploding in the morning afternoon:
SACRAMENTO - Andy Pugno, general counsel for ProtectMarriage.com, the official proponents of Proposition 8, released the following statement today in response to the ruling of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case:
You can imagine said statement ain't gonna be pretty. Excerpts and more right-wing handwriting at the flip.
From Ken Malloy's Blog at CBS47's Web site, here is just a portion of Andy Pugno's tantrum reaction (emphasis is mine):
"Today's ruling is clearly a disappointment. The judge's invalidation of the votes of over seven million Californians runs contrary to legal precedent and the notion of states' rights. But this is not the end of our fight to uphold the will of the people for traditional marriage, as we now begin an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."
So I guess Andy and all of the other Protect Straight Marriage proponents are now Tenthers. Nice.
"It is disturbing that the trial court, in order to strike down Prop 8, has literally accused the majority of California voters of having ill and discriminatory intent when casting their votes for Prop 8."
My, what projection! And it's not like the fight for human rights and equality has ever been popular with public opinion. Or anything.
"At trial we built a solid record to show that marriage has served as the foundation of the family and society as a whole, has universal functions and features attributable only to unions between a man and woman, has been defined in both law and language as a union between a man and a woman, and acts as the predominate relationship in which to create and support children."
Even in official press releases, right-wingers can't do teh grammer.
But wait! There's more--from predictable sources, of course. Venture with me into Freeperland:
I’m coming to the end of my rope, watching mentally ill faggots crapping on that which is holy.
Voting is a 100% waste of time.
I have seen Prop 187 set aside.
SB1070 set aside.
Prop 8 set aside.
We shall soon see Prop C set aside.
There is only way to enforce the US Constitution.
I'm taking an educated guess as to what the above Freeper means, exactly, by his implication.
And here's paranoid gem--as if we liberals actually WANT the anti-human rights, anti-woman Sharia laws to take place here!!!
America is ruined... depravity in every corner... what will the gays do when Sharia Law rules the land, off with their headzzz.
Apparently, the guy below didn't get the memo that the right-wingers' plans to go Galt got called off (or at least forgotten):
I’m not sure going Galt will do anything but cause us all tremendous grief and suffering. Some few are capable of living off the land, but the carrying capacity isn’t there for a nation of many millions of subsistence farmers. Besides, going Galt is just right-wing Cloward-Piven. If we don’t like the latter (and I don’t), then we shouldn’t recommend the former.
Paranoia continues to reign supreme in some parts of Freeperville (note the commenter's sig line). Do the Freepers really think so little of their servicemen and women in uniform, that they'd follow orders to fire on US?
"Of course, the war that will bring closure could
be very, very bad."
There was a discussion thread here recently where
many held that most of our Army's soldiers would
follow orders to fire on the citizenry.
That is a very disturbing thought.
28 posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 5:12:25 PM by OnTheDress (Live and let live; is not working...)
And without a touch of irony, this guy chimes in shortly afterwards:
So if voting is a waste of time, then you have surrendered to the forces you so despise. What is your strategy/solution? Great battles and inventions were not successful on the first try. There were 3000 attempts in the invention of the light bulb. The Colonials lost most of their battles during the Revolutionary War, yet they kept going.
The choice is clear. Fight on or surrender. See my tagline.
35 posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 5:18:56 PM by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
I can't deny it--watching freepers' heads explode is amusing, but the overturning of Prop 8 alone, with or without Freepers' input, makes me want to: