Missing in Action: Rosie O'Donnell

Why would an out Lesbian give $1,000 to Libby Dole's campaign in North Carolina and nothing to defeat Proposition 8?  Good as You picks up a few comments from Rosie's blog and what is even more startling is Rosie's responses to the comments.  She's pretty lame in her reasoning:  she doesn't live in California.  Well, guess what?  She still flew out here four years ago and got married in the San Francisco City Hall.  Most of the money for Proposition 8 comes from Mormons and the Catholic Church.  Now there's a marriage made in hell. 

Interestingly enough, most Catholics, in California at least, are opposed to Proposition 8. 

I just don't get why people who claim to be Christian feel so threatened by the idea of two people in a loving and committed relationship celebrating marriage.  Is their god that small, or is it just their minds that are small?

Anyway, back to Rosie.   Didn't she used to be funny before she turned so bitter and angry all the time?  I  hope the lesbians on her next cruise turn on her and throw her ass off the ship.

Comments

Where do you get that statistic about Catholics?

In my limited experience, most of them support prop 8 or even if they are conflicted, they will most likely vote for it.

As to why Catholics and Mormons vote for it, it boils down to this:

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

and this:

http://cacatholic.org/bishops-statements/a-statement-of-the-catholic-bishops-of-california-in-support-of-proposition-8.html

and the fact that the vast majority of voters don't read past what their friends and family tell them about things and what they receive in the mail.

There is at least a grain of truth in the arguments being posed by both sides.

The thing I can't understand is the Catholic and Mormon churches very much don't want the government mucking around with them, and this is at it should be.

A legal divorce is much more easy to obtain than annullment of a Catholic marriage, for example. There are already laws on the books for civil marriages that don't meet the criteria for a Catholic marriage. I see this as just one more instance of that.

They've gotten so caught up in this as a battle that they've lost sight of everything but winning.

[Houston]

My source for that is the Field Poll released on Friday which reported that Catholics are about evenly divided (48% No vs. 44% Yes). Catholic organizations such as Knights of Columbus have contributed huge amounts of money for the Yes on 8 campaign.

[ThatQueerGeorgiaBoy]

Did you notice the other parts of the Field Poll that showed that those with a high school education or less were overwhelmingly in support of prop 8 while those with a college education or more were overwhelmingly against it? Our future is being decided by people who don't have the ability to think through the issue logically. Oh, and these same people also claim to know no gay people - those that know gay people are overwhelmingly against prop 8. It saddens me that our fate is in the hands of people who are the MOST ill-informed among us.