i'm not trying to be an asshole... it comes naturally

[rone]

A Yes on 8 sign has appeared on our neighbors' lawn.  My first reaction was to try to get a hold of a No on 8 sign and put it on our lawn.  Note that we like our neighbors and that, despite being really Jesusy, they're not pushy in the least about it beyond offering to pray for us in our endeavors (like when i mentioned i was going for a job interview) and wishing that God bless us, which fifteen years ago would have had me seething, but now i don't mind at all because i'm not that much of an asshole anymore.

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The way things are going, it looks like Ecuador will have same-sex marriage before the US will.  Who saw that coming?

Comments

[dagon.net (from livejournal.com)]

I wouldn't care about your neighbor's sign specifically. HOWEVER, having some number of "no on 8" signs visible in an area can signal to other neighbors that they won't be the only person in the neighborhood who thinks it's a bad idea.

Having hundreds of signs on every available plot of grass is not helpful. Having a few signs in the area to show that local real people will vote no is probably a good thing.

Bumper stickers likewise. If lots of cars have one, the marginal value of another is very low, possibly negative. If they're rare, then it's a valuable signal that some real person thinks it's ok to believe that.