Some Unseemly Gloating
Post by Carl
It’s kind of unseemly but I’m afraid this is going to be a gloat blog for a while. And by afraid I mean “ha ha.” Today, Gary Randall has some thoughts about R-71.
It’s interesting how Seattle’s two newspapers, well, one is only online now, are reporting last night’s results on R-71. The Times says homosexuals are “smelling victory,” while the PI says the gay rights bill, SB 5688, is “Being approved.”
I love the smell of a hotel ballroom in the evening. Smells like victory.
Danny Westneat at the Times says the election is a “tipping point, of sorts”—”a bellwether of public acceptance” of the homosexual lifestyle.
Washington isn’t the rest of the country, but hopefully this helps move people in the right direction. And we’re still not totally out of the woods yet.
Whatever the narrative, celebration reigns—especially in the press.
Danny Westneat is being paid to have an opinion, so as far as I can tell the complaint is that they’re reporting on what the approve camp has to say when they win, and an opinion guy had an opinion.
As of this morning; 1,002,599 votes have been counted. We trail by 20,703.
I’m glad I gave them some scratch. I’d been questioning if it would have made more sense to give that to the no on 1033 people, so I’m glad I gave to the tighter race.
I have some further thoughts.
Oh boy.
The Seattle PI correctly quoted the statement we put out yesterday:
“The Faith and Freedom Network, which opposed the new gay rights law, said in a statement earlier Tuesday that the effort had been worth it.”
Even in defeat, it’s screw you gay people. Charming, you asshole.
“People of faith and social conservatives have been revived as a political force in Washington,” the statement said. “R-71 has identified upwards of 200,000 people who are willing to take action to protect marriage, the family and children. It has also identified a legal team that has won victory after victory, a team that will now defend R-71 petition signers and their right to anonymous political speech before the United States Supreme Court.”
So this whole effort was just to expand your mailing list?
Pastor Ken Hutcherson expanded on this thought last night. He pointed out that half the churches in the state did not participate in R-71. He also said, “R-71 is a victory regardless of the vote,” pointing to a series of impossible victories during the R-71 campaign.
Half of churches in the state disagree with you. Perhaps that would make this a good time for some self reflection on the dangers of attempting to speak for people of faith. No? OK.
He said, “We’re praying that the vote comes through for us. If the vote doesn’t come through for us tonight, we’ll try again.”
You’ll try again? Don’t you think the demographics are trending against you?
Indeed.
Be assured we will try again. And we are already looking at our options.
Be assured we’ll be here to make fun of you both.
But for the moment, let’s wait until all the votes are counted.
Be strong. Be vigilant. Be prayerful.
Dearest Jesus,
Pleez change some of the “approve” votes in the last election that have been cast but not counted to “reject” votes.
Amen
November 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I guess Larry Stickney can go back to beating his wife now.