Why some people are just manky bigoted arseholes...

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be out there skipping with joy because Obama won the presidency, but I still have some of the grump left in me, and for a variety of reasons.

However, can I first say thank fuck Sarah Palin is not the vice president of the USA. For a minute there I was very very afraid.

Right. Back to it. My current "issues".

1. Superdrug doesn't exist in NZ, which means I can't buy the only face scrub that stops my skin going beserk.
2. Superdrug does have an online shop, but they won't have any of the aforementioned scrub for a few months.
3. Since I drastically cut back on my alcohol consumption (it was making me crazy in the head) I have developed a fetish for Chew-ets Original Dark Peanut Chews - these appear to be being phased out in NZ.
4. Our fuckwit student neighbours kept launching fireworks all through the night; the dog was not pleased and kept us awake.
5. I've just made a cup of tea & realised that I am almost out of sugar.
6. A very good friend of ours has been 'retrenched' from his job.

BUT here's the biggy

7. California, and a couple of other US states, have just voted to permanently ban gay marriage. In fact some states, I think Arkansas is one, has made it law that no relationship except marriage between a man and a woman has any legal validity at all.

What a bunch of small-minded, homophobic, bigoted, not really getting the message of Christianity, badly dressed (that's a guess), scummy manky shitheads.

Oh, I do apologise for not being considered equal or human enough to be allowed the same basic rights as you.

Perhaps I shouldn't lose my temper? After all Jo & I have only been together for 10 years, marginally longer than my brother and his wife (just using you as an example, hope you're okay with that?), and yet it is obvious that our relationship should in no way have the same status as theirs. Why? Because we are dirty lesbos, I presume.

Yes, I do live in NZ and not the USA, but this kind of thing just drives me nuts. Just at a time when everyone is getting their knickers in a twist about "change", they have to go and spoil it by behaving in such a scaredy cat "gays are threatening marriage" manner. And, pray tell, how exactly are we threatening marriage? I've never even met marriage, let alone threatened it. Are they worried people will stop getting married in case we think they are gay? I don't get it. I thought the point of it was to make a public declaration of your commitment, which subsequently has evolved into a complex series of legal commitments and rights mainly associated with property & inheritance.

Or is it because married couples pay less tax in alot of places and they're worried about losing the revenue from taxing the infamous "pink pound"? Because you know all gay people are rolling in cash...

On the bright side this legislation may be overturned as unconstitutional, because fundamentally it is a small group of people denying rights to a large group of people. This explains it better -

“If the voters approved an initiative that took the right to free speech away from women, but not from men, everyone would agree that such a measure conflicts with the basic ideals of equality enshrined in our constitution. Proposition 8 suffers from the same flaw – it removes a protected constitutional right - here, the right to marry - not from all Californians, but just from one group of us,” said Jenny Pizer, Senior Counsel with Lambda Legal. “That’s too big a change in the principles of our constitution to be made just by a bare majority of voters.” (a clever lawyer person in San Francisco)

I should revel in the fact that this clearly demonstrates that the Americans, despite many protestations of the opposite, do in fact understand irony. Particularly Mr Obama who acknowledged in his Chicago victory speech that gay people were in fact alive and voting in America. Maybe he'll do them a favour and give them some other rights too.

And if I am really really lucky, NZ will embrace this time of "change" and in our general election on Saturday vote out a perfectly good Labour government in favour of a right wing twat simply because "it's time for a change". If you're interested in why he is a twat here's one simple example - he wants to sell state/council housing to the incumbent owners because he claims everyone has the right to own property. What a tosser. He also thinks increased literacy would cut crime. Wanker.

I am now going for a lie down in a darkened room.