KIOSK HELLO

** Until divorce do us apart ** (Thanks GG)

We had a com­menter the other day com­ment on how ter­ri­ble it is in the us — that we soon will not only allow same-sex mar­riage, but we will *encour­age* it, and the com­menter felt the urge to move abroad to avoid such lib­eral thoughts (now, unless he/she plans mov­ing to China or some­where in the mid­dle east, he should know that he’ll be less home there than here…). Let me just say we here at KIOSK encour­age day­care kids to become gay, we even called your par­ents and encour­aged them to divorce and hook up with some­one with the same set of gen­i­tals as they them­selves. Aren’t we ter­ri­ble, we liberals.

Any­way, if you live in Cal­i­for­nia and have any form of san­ity, you need to vote no (NO, niet, non, nej) to propo­si­tion 8 on Novem­ber 4th.  In short, that prop is try­ing to over­turn the right to same sex mar­riages that got granted in the sum­mer. (I might have got­ten the facts wrong, but maybe wikipedia does it bet­ter -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008) )

Maybe the poster meant “Gray” mar­riage? Yes, he’s right, they are really sad.

Speak­ing of which, some­thing really sad would be if propo­si­tion 4 would pass: It would block any teenage abor­tion until 48 hours after the teenagers par­ents would be noti­fied. In my days I knew many sage teenage girls (I mean, is the law designed to notify the teenage fathers par­ents?) who would rather cut of their hands than tell their par­ents they were stu­pid enogh to get knocked up. I don’t think any­one sees lightly on abor­tion, teenager or not, and I encour­age a teenager to have a talk with an adult before tak­ing a deci­sion on these mat­ters, but it really is the per­sons own deci­sion, not their par­ents.  I don’t think I need to explain all this to you — KIOSK cus­tomers seem to be 98% very rea­son­able peo­ple.  Just, if you are in Cal­i­for­nia, do give these amend­ments a thought. Talk to your neigh­bors and friends about it.

I am not involved enough in pol­i­tics — espe­cially Cal­i­forn­ian — to know if there are other points that needs a steady think-through, but these two had been passed up to me and they are very, very dan­ger­ous amend­ments should they pass.