WTF AMERICA?

[jhameia]

Now that we've got Obama into the White House, let's have a look at the local ballot measures, in particular Proposition 8 (in California, banning gay marriage) and Measure 11 (South Dakota, limiting abortion).

So far, it looks like

YES TO 8? WTF?

YES TO 11? WTF?

YES TO BANNING GAY MARRIAGE (yes, Arizona and California and Florida)

YES TO BANNING GAY COUPLES FROM ADOPTING (fuck you, Arkansas)

YES TO LIMITING ABORTION (South Dakota, leaning towards No in California)

NO TO HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS (fuck you too, Arizona, why won't anyone remember that white people were once illegal immigrants, too??)

Not all the precincts have reported in yet, but still, this is mind-boggling!

Comments

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that page was seriously disturbing. What the HELL makes people think it's okay to legislate other people's rights away? The states should be taking the federal constitution as a model and all it's ever done has expand rights.
(Except for Prohibition but that was repealed.)

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

WTF? That's depressing.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

The Arizona one's good if that's your stance, actually - the no vote was about revoking business licenses for companies who do hire them.

8 and Arkansas' adoption one piss me off the most, if just because the former's annulling some existing marriages and, well, Arkansas. Agh.

[tenchan.livejournal.com]

Elsewhere, voters in Colorado and South Dakota rejected measures that could have led to sweeping bans of abortion, and Washington became only the second state — after Oregon — to offer terminally ill people the option of physician-assisted suicide.

the one in SD didn't pass