Cross-posted in longer form at VeryHotJews.com
My profoundest thanks to those of you who've contributed to Stand Up for Love, my No on 8 Act Blue page — and, for that matter, those of you who've contributed to the fight against this hateful California ballot initiative in any form. A quick update: thus far, I've raised $425. I'm told that if I can raise $1,000 I might get my pony. It's not guaranteed, I know, and even if I don't get the pony I'll still be thrilled to have helped defeat Prop 8. But I really, really want the pony and I promise I'll feed him and brush him and everything and please please please please please.
This is my thermometer, which I'm really excited about because it's way official-looking.
And this is Mr. Sparkles.
I don't have to tell all y'all that the fight against Prop 8 represents a historic stand for civil rights, for the pursuit of happiness, for equality and first-class citizenship for all, and for ponies.
You can visit the Stand Up for Love page and contribute to the No on 8 campaign to prevent evil religious fuckwits from writing discrimination into the California constitution.
You can put in a few bucks to say that we really ought not to interfere with the right of same-sex couples to solemnize their relationships.
You can drop a few bills in the kitty to affirm that your gay friends deserve to pursue happiness, and the people who would try to get in the way of that are morally bankrupt shitheads (who, as it happens, only take the Bible "literally" when it suits them and have no scruples about resorting to blackmail).
You can deposit some dough because defeating the curdled and desperate and mean-spirited and cruel initiative known as Prop 8, for fuck's sake, is another way of sticking it to Hitler.
Or you can just contribute because every dollar brings me closer to Mr. Sparkles. So click the thing and make with the giving already. I thank you.