I just got back from an infuriating “conversation” with some idiot posting up door-hangers for Prop 102 all over our apartment complex (Prop 102 is Arizona’s Ban Gay Marriage amendment). I got home from walking the dog and he was just about to put one on my door, when I said, “Sorry, not on my house!” After putting the dog inside, I realized he had put these all over the complex: not just the doors, but on the stairway railings and other prominent areas. The place was decorated like a Christmas tree, if Christmas was Hate Week.
So, I proceeded to follow the guy around, taking down and ripping up every hanger he put up. Along the way I passed a couple people who had picked up their individual flyers and were ripping them up in a more piecemeal manner. After one woman gave her ripped-up hanger to me saying “That’s what I think of that! But does he know you’re following him?” it occurred to me that he was so oblivious he hadn’t noticed, even after several buildings! So, I confronted him.
Me: “How does letting gay people get married hurt your marriage, or my relationship with my girlfriend, in any way?”
Douche: “…”
Douche: “… So, I take it you’re not in favor of Prop 102?”
Me: “Of course not! So this is pretty much just religiously-motivated bigotry and hatred then, huh?”
Douche: “Well I don’t see it that way, no.”
Me: “So what is it then?”
Douche: “…”
WTF? I talked to this guy for a while after that and he never told me anything about why he supported Prop 102, even though I told him several reasons why I didn’t. What type of human filth puts up these hateful flyers and then doesn’t have enough spine to defend themselves or even articulate their opinion at all when confronted? This guy was the smuggest son of a bitch I’ve seen in a while, and he looked a lot like Mitt Romney, in every way that someone can look like Mitt Romney.
Eventually I got him to leave by pointing out that he didn’t have any permission to do what was essentially littering on the complex, which is private property. Whether he subsequently got any such permission I don’t know, but I doubt it since the guy who works the front office is conspicuously gay.
“One man. One woman. That’s Marriage.” is their slogan, and pictures of happy family stuff is their argument. I worked with foster children in the Los Angeles court system, and if you really want to be pro-family, here’s what you do: Legalize gay marriage, legalize gay adoption, and promote it like crazy to the gay community. These kids need stable families and I dunno, maybe the couples who can’t biologically have children might want to adopt them?
Oops, I forgot that they’ll gay-ify the poor children with their gay germs! Fuck people who don’t think.