Comments on: Not fair? NOT FAIR?

By: Giliell, Approved Straight Chorus

Giliell, Approved Straight Chorus — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:20:19 +0000

Quite often my daughter will challenge her younger sister to a race while she is already 5 or 10 m ahead of her and then declare a triumphant victory. If her younger sister does this and reaches the finish line first (usually doors and stuff), she’ll cry “not fair” and sometimes throw a little tantrum. Her working definition of fair is “whatever lets me win the race”.
Well, we take her aside and explain to her what “fair” actually means. She’s five now. I think there’s a good chance she will grow up into a reasonable adult.
The people at NOM obviously didn’t.

By: jamessweet

jamessweet — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:02:43 +0000

Wait, so, now that they finally lost at the ballot box, the argument has shifted to, “Well, every time it was fair we won at the ballot box. The only times we lost weren’t fair!”

Wow. I mean, at least our side (or most of us, at least) can readily admit that we lost at the ballot box many times fair and square. I take issue with the rights of a minority being subjected to a majority vote, of course, but the elections themselves were legitimate.

“Sour grapes” doesn’t even begin to describe this kind of petulant behavior.

By: Mara

Mara — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:02:06 +0000

Not fair. Now that the popular vote went our way, it’s not fair.

::stares:: Wow. Um…I think that’s what my mother would call chutzpah. Plain ol’ ordinary chutzpah. Also known as gall.

Good grief.

By: RyanV

RyanV — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:52:02 +0000

Lol — didn’t have a chance to get your message out? The message is (and has been for many years) plain and clear to everyone in the country: “you (and by extension, God) don’t like fags, and you don’t think they should get married”.

This has never truly been a religious issue. I know barrels full of Christians who think the government should allow same-sex marriage. Homophobes just use religion as a convenient excuse to attempt to legalize their bigotry

By: Swanky

Swanky — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:33:05 +0000

Guess it wasn’t fair when all the out-of-state Mormon and other money poured into California to pass Proposition 8.

By: F

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:21:58 +0000

It’s not fair! The electorate has bothered to engage their brains or to stop being assholes about this.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:22:28 +0000

They’re the typical hypocritical majority group. Whenever they win something it’s the right thing, “the people” have spoken and the losers need to STFU and crawl into a hole. The thing they fear most is losing their unearned, undeserved privilege. It’s happening and now they’re crapping their pants.

By: Nomen Nescio

Nomen Nescio — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:54:07 +0000

shades of Hollingsworth Hound fuming over another Lucky Ducky “win”.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:08:08 +0000

The fight has never been fair. We (LGBTQ folks) are at a massive disadvantage, everywhere, and this has been an uphill battle for us since the beginning.

By: Matthew Ulmen

Matthew Ulmen — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:40:30 +0000

Sounds like the listened to Karl Rove a bit, who still hasn’t returned to reality.

I just hope this is a sign of the trend reversing into the favor or Marriage Equality, that would be icing on the cake.