Comments on: How The Prop 8 Overturned Rumor On Twitter Happened

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:53:47 +0000

Actually, I teach my little boys that if our gay friend, who is as kind and caring to them as any of our straight friends, wants to get married to someone he loves, he should be able to. They don’t seem confused about that.

As for being confused, I’d say that’s you. The Constitution doesn’t outlaw the ways you can have sex, sorry. The ruling was that sodomy was legal or illegal for gays or straights. It was about whether or not gays can marry.

Somehow, we’ve had homosexuality for thousands of years, and yet millions of people don’t feel the need to “try both sides” to figure it out. That’s because millions of people simply aren’t homosexual. Similarly, you have millions of homosexuals who don’t feel they need to “try” straight sex to know if they like it. They’re not straight.

Personally, I believe in a God who loves all of his children and wouldn’t decide that some of them should have feelings toward the same sex and yet should be damned for that or cursed with your alleged shorter life span.

But in the end, my believe about God or your believe has nothing to do with this argument. Where talking about what the laws of the United States of America allow. A court has ruled today that the US Constitution protects the rights for gay couples to web. We now wait to see how it goes up through the Supreme Court.

That same Constitution also expressly forbids the US government from using religious beliefs as a foundation of its law, in order to protect your right to worship a God as you see fit, as well as might right and rights of those who don’t believe in a God or gods at all.

Personally, I think that was an incredibly wise decision that our founders made for this country.

By: HeDied4u

HeDied4u — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:39:33 +0000

This is what America is becoming. It is okay to teach our little boys that being sodomized their entire lives is constitutional and okay. Aren’t our teenagers confused enough already? Now they are going to feel the need to try both sides to figure out what they like. This is ridiculous! Then everybody wonders why this country is falling apart!!! Freedom to do good is great, but too much freedom to do bad is not so good. Why has it been scientifically proven that the life span of homosexuals is significantly shorter that those in normal relationships? Why? Well because it is WRONG! Why is it wrong? Well, because it is BAD for you! Everything that God tells us is wrong is not because He is trying to destroy our lives, it is because He wants to protect our lives because He cares for us!

By: LARPkitten

LARPkitten — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:41:26 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/prop-8-overturned-gay-mar_n_671018.html

Posted today.
Also, friends in Cali confirmed. This is recent news.

By: daleandersen

daleandersen — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:16:57 +0000

The latest rumor on Prop 8

http://tinyurl.com/goofy-gavin

By: twatter

twatter — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:42:31 +0000

Twitter… A Thundering Herd of ADD Morons

By: LR

LR — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:02:27 +0000

FYI, earlier today I forwarded the LAT link to friends, but I got it not from Twitter, but from the LAT site itself, on the right in the section where links appear to recent news. It was just right there for anyone (and apparently, everyone) to click on just as though it were fresh news. When the link was up and I forwarded it, it definitely did NOT say ARCHIVE STORY–either on the link or on the story itself. That came later, after one of my more astute friends caught the date problem and let me down easy that it was old news. That could be where the friends of girl who heard it from friends on fb got it. It was just like new news, and if LAT can’t even correct their tweets right, why is it hard to believe they screwed up some coding for what to post today? No wonder newspapers are going out of business left and right.

By: Michelle E

Michelle E — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:22:42 +0000

curious; how long & how many tweets between original bad post first correction. the speed of self-correction may be the real story here.

By: FredWGarrettIII

FredWGarrettIII — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:00:24 +0000

Excellent deduction work!

On, “Follow Friday” I have noticed that things spread very rapidly on Twitter. I try not to get involved, although I do manage to get sucked in every once in awhile

Thank you for this!

By: Scott Willoughby

Scott Willoughby — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:34:31 +0000

Sorry to say I was reeled into this myself. Thanks for the Columbo work, Danny, very interesting to see how this all started.

By: jef

jef — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:29:28 +0000

I really wonder why the hell LAT “RE”tweeted their own articles without some kind of their own *due process* (like consulting with the desk?).

Anyway, you really did a nice job, Danny.