Mapping social value space

[mattbell]

California Proposition 2, which provides for adequate space for farm animals to stretch their limbs and turn around, is widely expected to pass.
California Proposition 8, which prevents new gay marriages and dissolves all the existing ones,  is likely to pass, albeit by a slim margin.

This means that there's a sizable contingent of people who are voting yes on both 2 and 8.  Who are these people?  I want to know what goes on in their brains to allow for such uneven compassion.  "Oh, we must do something about those poor farm animals, but I don't want those gay people to marry the ones they love, that's just sick."

Comments

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

It's the fine print on 2, where it specifies that gay farm animals can still be kept in cages, to keep them from spoiling the marriages of the other farm animals.

[traumentwerfer.livejournal.com]

LOL. Thanks for making me smile.

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

There's a certain point with politics this close to elections where all I can do is try to make myself laugh at how absurd some things are. And this year, that point started like 3 MONTHS ago.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

See the polls on Prop 8 here - apparently only three polls have shown it winning (admittedly, that's two of the most recent three), and fortunately none have shown it getting 50% of the vote - and since many people default to NO on ballot measures, we can hope it will fail.

Anyway, I don't know where you are these days, and what your time situation is like, but phonebanking for No on 8 may be a productive use of some of your time. There is much information on this available at once_a_banana's journal, and I'll join him for at least a bit while I'm in town this week.

Also, it's the reverse image that almost surprises me more - people who think it's awful that someone is denied a particular term for their relationship (while still getting the same legal benefits), but think it's irrelevant whether animals are able to live a life in which they can move. Of course, I don't really have a good idea how most people think of animals, while I have a somewhat better idea how people tend to think of gays.

[euneeblic.livejournal.com]

That's probably how I'd have voted when I was a Christian. The Bible says that we're the stewards of the Earth, so I believed it was my responsibility to care for the animals. It also said, or so I interpreted, that it's a sin to lay with someone of the same gender.

[dixiemouse.livejournal.com]

uuummmm... maybe the thought goes something like, "Oh... cute fuzzy animals! Poor babies!! We have to protect them!! What?! GAYS?! They CHOOSE to put what where?! I barely touch my butt when I wipe! That scares me!"

In the 10 different voting situations previously, 9 times similar laws have passed, so unfortunately there is the possibility of it passing... not to mention, they got a really strong lead, from all the out of state money that was channeled in to "save marriage"...