Because this post is about being gay.....

[tabaqui]

Sort of. Basically, it's here because people are asshats and i just...cannot...stand it.
If you go here, you can vote for Gregory and Johnathan, who want to get married. If they win this contest, apparently Crate & Barrel will throw them a wedding. Neat, eh?

Well, not according to this blog...wait. The post has been taken down in the last five minutes, wow! I hope that means something good. Basically, it was a 'gay's are dirty and gross and fuck them, i want a het couple to win!!!'

ETA: Here is the blog, and they've deleted the old post and put up a new one, that's free of hate speech. I wonder if the site called them on it?

Yes, you have to sign up to vote. Yes, i did vote, and no, i have not gotten any spam from Crate & Barrel. But the sheer *venom* of the deleted blog, and the 'right on!' comments posted made me kind of sick to my stomach.

So i think it would be cool if Johnathan and Gregory could win the competition. So go and vote! :) If you look on the right, you can organize the different entries 'randomly' or by 'most votes', etc., in a little drop down menu. That'll show you how many votes they have. Currently, it's at 5318.

In other news - i have none. Working feverishly on my apocabigbang and that is about all. It's two hours from being March first!
*flail flail*

And congratulations, Canada, on your hockey gold! :)

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Registered and voted. Aww; they look such a sweet couple.

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

voted!!!

:D

*spins you*

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the alert -- I went and voted for Gregory and Johnathan.

[tabaqui]

Thanks! :) They do, don't they? I read about them in a 'Gay Right's Movement' page on Facebook and the text there said that they were attacked - hate crime - and that's why the site was mentioning them and their story.

[tabaqui]

Yay!
:)

[tabaqui]

Awesome! Thanks. :)

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Voted! I love that what they want is nothing extravagant and bridezillaish. They want family and a lovely day. Which right there makes me like them a lot.

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

I went and voted and they are in second place right now, with a total of 5336 votes, which is miles ahead of the third place couple.

Given the nature of the rest of the "Officer Shaved Longcock"'s posts I doubt that he has learned much in the way of a lesson, alas. Have you read some of that stuff? Insanely, horrifically racist would not be a mild description. He probably just bit off more than he could chew in terms of LGBQT backlash and decided to tuck his tail between his legs and run.

Disgusting.

In happier news, you would have laughed at the Canadian hockey fixation in full swing today. You didn't need to be actually be watching the game to know what was going on. I was outside at one point when a goal was scored against us and I swear the entire city groaned. Of course, it was helped along by the fact that the streets were completely and utterly deserted.

It was an awesome game though, you guys gave us a hell of a run for our money.

*offers sincere traditional handshake and tried not to look too smug*

;-D

[emelye-miller.livejournal.com]

Lol. Stupid haters.

Registered my vote for Gregory and Johnathan.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

waiting to verify my email... but will vote!

Mean people are stupid dumbheads.

*hugs* YAY for fic!

[tabaqui]

Me too! I really hate weddings that become some sort of insane circus.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, that's a pretty terrifyingly ugly blog. I didn't read all the comments, so i hope the 'newer' ones were people telling him/them to stfu. Gah.

I don't care about sports at all, but honestly, i was really pleased for Canada to win - it just seemed like a lose at *this* Olympics would seem so unfair.

I did feel really sorry for the US goalie guy, though, with the painted up helmet? It was so obvious he was about to break down and sob into his mitts, i just wanted them to leave him alone.

Thanks for voting!
*grabs you in untraditional bear-hug*
:)

[tabaqui]

Awesome - thanks!

[tabaqui]

Yes they are!
*smacks them*

Heeeee. Fic rocks!
*smooch*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Clicked and voted. They look adorable. I hope they win.

Very disturbed by the hate blog that had been posted about it. They're entitled to their opinion, just as we are. But I still feel the need to string them up by their privates for posting something so hateful. It's just not necessary, you know? Taking out the hate words in their opinion didn't make a damn bit of difference. *sigh*

I hope to hear good news for Gregory and Jonathan. :)

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

The argument against gay marriage that defeats me is that 'it'll devalue het marriage'.

Huh? Marriage is marriage, and some religious thing about it being to procreate was stupid the minute it was said. I can't have kids; does that mean I shouldn't have sex any more because it won't lead to procreation? That ain't happening. *g*

[partaymon5.livejournal.com]

I actually heard my aunt say that very thing! I live in Canada and couldn't believe it (now granted she is in her 70's) but how in the heck would it 'devalue' anything and what makes heterosexual so much better than anything else? I hope they win too. I've never understood why people can't just live and let live.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

*nods hard*

It's a ridiculous argument. Marriage is a joke anyway and my only question is why gay couples would want to be involved.

I've been married 30 years but it was a civil service, nothing to do with the church. Are we civil partners? All I know is that I love my husband, still.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

The link goes to some police couple now.

ETA okay I'm dim.
Done it now.

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

Registered and voted!

[tabaqui]

Yay, thank you!

[tabaqui]

Heeee! Nah.
*smooch*
Thank you!

[tabaqui]

Nope, means you shouldn't get married! You can't be allowed to cheapen marriage with your sexy, sex-having, sex-enjoying ways!!
Eeeeeeevol!!
*makes sign*

:)

[tabaqui]

No kidding. Yes, somehow my 25 years of marriage count for nothing now that gays can marry, too! Woe! I shall immediately file for divorce!!

Yeesh.

[tabaqui]

Thank you!
:)

Yeah, the original post was really ugly. I don't know why they changed it, but i'm glad they did. Just...blech.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Wrong!!! Yet feels so right. *g*

I've been misinformed and that gay couple up the road who wear horns and bring kiddies into their evol web might be worth watching...

Stereotyping is so useful. Not.

[tabaqui]

*giggles*

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Right there with you. My years of marriage have been damn good.

If gay couples choose to marry, what's the point of issues? Dumb, dumb...find other things to think about.

It's all good, and best wishes to anyone who wants to legalse their love.

[tabaqui]

I think people just have to have someone or something to hate, so they don't end up hating their own little miserable, narrow lives.

Blech.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm secure. It's easier when you have a base, but not a given

[lomer.livejournal.com]

Just voted for them.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Urrgh, America, how so stupid? This fecking country.

Really looking forward to reading your apocabigbang story, hon. :D

[trishabooms.livejournal.com]

Voted.

Forgot to check the votes but fingers crossed.

I always find bigotry particularly shocking. Every time I think the majority of decent people are beyond that sort of thing I find myself floored by the level of close-minded, ignorant, evil bullshit that's still out there.

[tabaqui]

Man, me too. I get slapped in the face with some kind of hateful screed or other and it's just...so fucking hard to wrap my head around. I mean - now, here, 2010, you *really* are still thinking that? REALLY??

Gah.

[tabaqui]

I know! Fuck me, grow up, America.

*twirls you*

I'm so excited about it, too!

[tabaqui]

Thank you thank you.

[reremouse.livejournal.com]

my only question is why gay couples would want to be involved.

The right to form my own legally-recognized family with all the rights and protections conferred on straight marriage-based families by law would be nice to have.

Nothin' big or important here - just a yen for equal rights.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

The right to form my own legally-recognized family with all the rights and protections conferred on straight marriage-based families by law would be nice to have.

I don't know about other countries, but in the UK civil partnerships confer exactly the same legal rights as marriage. It's illegal to discriminate against same-sex couples, and rightly so.

Only the name is different, and my point really was that I have a civil partnership rather than a marriage because the word 'marriage' suggests religious involvement. As both my husband and I are atheists, we made a deliberate decision not to be married in church. Granted, we had the choice and gay couples don't.

[reremouse.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I knew you weren't attacking the gay rights movement's perceived need for gay marriage but I think statements like yours unintentionally devalue what it is you (as a category) have (in the US) that gay people don't and why it's important to have, and so had to answer.

While I disagree marriage is a solely religious word and call that religious right propaganda, civil unions confer nowhere near the number of rights and protections as marriage here in the States. It's the smallest fraction, and those rights don't carry across state lines or confer any Federal protections at all. I'd be all for civil unions being the only state sponsored and recognized joining as long as it applied to everyone.

Even taking marriage as a religious term, since religions have been marrying gays and lesbians longer than it's been civilly recognized, it's still discrimination to prevent religious gay couples from being legally recognized as married. Two sets of vocabulary would also be a legal paperwork nightmare. Any form or document that hadn't been updated to include the new words or forgot to include the words 'or civilly partnered' could be potentially voided in court.

Here in the States, as long as I don't have the option of the same choices and vocabulary as straight people, I'll be second class. It's not equality until I have the same rights, protections, and choices on the same level.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

I feel a little patronised because I'm straight.

No, I'm not homophobic and have a deeply held belief that every person on the planet deserves equal rights in every respect.

The word 'marriage' carries a religious overtone and the ceremony is a religious sacrament, as I understand it (I'm an atheist). As I tried to say, there are two sets of vocabulary and papers for gay and straight couples here but there is no difference in rights. None, not a single one. Rights to property, children and the family dog are exactly the same.

[reremouse.livejournal.com]

Nope - no patronizing or veiled accusations of homophobia from here. I believe everyone should be treated with equal rights and respect regardless of sexuality too.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

We agree in the most important respects: equality and the right of every person to express themselves without harming others.

That's what counts. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beetle_/]

People can be asshats, sometimes. Damned Canadians!

Just kidding ;D

But the name of that blog inspires no confidence that the writer has evolved much beyond Meathead.

Voted for Gregory and Jonathan. It's now up to 9837, I think.

Did you say fic?

[tabaqui]

Heeee. Yeah, exactly.

There will be apocabigbang fic going up on the 24th! The comm is already live.

:)