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What animus? You contributed to Prop 8 when it was a campaign issue. Nothing in Prop 8 protected the thousands marriages that existed at the time of the vote.
by BobNNN 11y ago
What animus?
You contributed to Prop 8 when it was a campaign issue. Nothing in Prop 8 protected the thousands marriages that existed at the time of the vote. The plain language of Prop 8 would have rendered those marriages meaningless. That a court found those marriages undissolvable does not exonerate your side from trying to dissolve them.
Domestic Partnerships were not, at the time of Prop 8, identical to marriage.
I'm sorry I accused you of donating a campaign that demonized gay people. I was unaware of the clarification. You only donated to a campaign to strip fellow citizens of a legal status. Your allies did the demonizing.
Whether you saw or did not see ads demonizing gay people as a threat to children, ads like that certainly were aired.
I am hardly evading discussing this. I have no idea what you mean by "HN". My name is Bob Nelson (not terribly helpful in a nation with thousands of Bob Nelsons, but what can I say, I'm a common man).
- BrendanEich 11y agoDomestic partnerships were, per wikipedia (cited above), equivalent to conjugal marriage at state law level, which was the only level at issue. DOMA prevailed at federal level; I'm on record as against it, and it finally got overturned on good grounds. HN is hacker news, this site. Anyway, glad to have a real name. Also thanks for acknowledging that I didn't demonize.