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	<title>Comments on: Rocker Melissa Etheridge: &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Pay California Taxes&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: Selective Democracy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Selective Democracy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Rocker Melissa Etheridge: &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Pay California Taxes&#8221; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: IRS Employees Threatened with Death if they Enforce Healthcare Provisions</title>
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		<dc:creator>IRS Employees Threatened with Death if they Enforce Healthcare Provisions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Suzanne,

Thanks for visiting the site.

What some minorities can&#039;t get done through the legislative process they try to bludgeon the majority with through the judicial process.

It&#039;s undemocratic and gives far too much power to ideologicially driven judges.

I don&#039;t think anyone is bullying anyone else by saying that the insitution of marriage - which was formed, developed and has been sustained for thousands of years  for the simple and obvious reason that the human species is comprised of two genders - should retain it&#039;s traditional definition.

But having said that, I know why people who favor gay marriage try to paint those who are opposed to it as wicked, evil, mean-spirited and bigotted.

Because you can make people do things they wouldn&#039;t normally do if they feel the consequences of not doing them are great. 

Thus, the gay lobby hopes that people will eventually stop voicing their opposition to same sex marriage for fear of being labeled and ostracized.

It is, of course, a form of censorship and thought control.

For merely the latest example of this I refer you to the recent Miss USA pageant fiasco.

Miss California said she opposed same sex marriage and was called a bittch and a c-word on national TV for it.

That, to me, is much more intolerant than merely supporting the continuation of a two thousand year old tradition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suzanne,</p>
<p>Thanks for visiting the site.</p>
<p>What some minorities can&#8217;t get done through the legislative process they try to bludgeon the majority with through the judicial process.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s undemocratic and gives far too much power to ideologicially driven judges.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone is bullying anyone else by saying that the insitution of marriage &#8211; which was formed, developed and has been sustained for thousands of years  for the simple and obvious reason that the human species is comprised of two genders &#8211; should retain it&#8217;s traditional definition.</p>
<p>But having said that, I know why people who favor gay marriage try to paint those who are opposed to it as wicked, evil, mean-spirited and bigotted.</p>
<p>Because you can make people do things they wouldn&#8217;t normally do if they feel the consequences of not doing them are great. </p>
<p>Thus, the gay lobby hopes that people will eventually stop voicing their opposition to same sex marriage for fear of being labeled and ostracized.</p>
<p>It is, of course, a form of censorship and thought control.</p>
<p>For merely the latest example of this I refer you to the recent Miss USA pageant fiasco.</p>
<p>Miss California said she opposed same sex marriage and was called a bittch and a c-word on national TV for it.</p>
<p>That, to me, is much more intolerant than merely supporting the continuation of a two thousand year old tradition.</p>
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		<title>By: Suzanne Doyle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suzanne Doyle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oops.. typo&#039;d on my own last name!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oops.. typo&#8217;d on my own last name!</p>
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		<title>By: Suzanne Doyl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suzanne Doyl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, it&#039;s not hypocritical to approve of some things being put to a majority vote and others not. Civil rights should not. The majority can be a bully to minorities, as we&#039;ve seen a number of times in our history. Constitutions, courts and legislatures are some protection against that but unfortunately, California&#039;s constitution is unusually easy to change by simple majority vote.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, it&#8217;s not hypocritical to approve of some things being put to a majority vote and others not. Civil rights should not. The majority can be a bully to minorities, as we&#8217;ve seen a number of times in our history. Constitutions, courts and legislatures are some protection against that but unfortunately, California&#8217;s constitution is unusually easy to change by simple majority vote.</p>
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		<title>By: My New Year&#8217;s Resolutions Based on Lessons Learned in 2008</title>
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		<dc:creator>My New Year&#8217;s Resolutions Based on Lessons Learned in 2008</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] See Melissa Etheridge and Gay Marriage [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Brett Fairbourn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brett Fairbourn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, call her your girlfriend, or your partner, or your civil partner if that&#039;s the case.  A wife has a husband, like a mother has a child.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, call her your girlfriend, or your partner, or your civil partner if that&#8217;s the case.  A wife has a husband, like a mother has a child.</p>
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		<title>By: Justin McCoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Justin McCoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=5359 Fantastic perpective on tolerence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&#038;id=5359" rel="nofollow">http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&#038;id=5359</a> Fantastic perpective on tolerence.</p>
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