Savage Lovecast Episode 828
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at savage.love. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:14.4 | while there's nothing you can't ask on the savage lovecast. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm concerned for my listeners in Michigan. |
| 0:26.2 | It's not just the state's ratio of right-wing mag and nut jobs to reasonable human |
| 0:30.0 | beings that has me worried for all my listeners in Michigan and other states and the |
| 0:34.0 | United States. |
| 0:35.1 | And it's not just the two Republicans on Michigan's obscure board of canvassers that have |
| 0:39.6 | me worried. |
| 0:40.8 | A quick digression. |
| 0:42.1 | Those two Republican appointees to that board last week blocked an abortion rights |
| 0:46.5 | amendment to the state constitution from appearing on the ballot this November in Michigan |
| 0:51.0 | for absolutely absurd reasons. |
| 0:55.9 | Something about a typo in the text of the measure, a couple of words being too close together. But what these two Republican fox are really |
| 1:00.9 | worried about, what Republican Fox all over the country are worried about right now, is another state |
| 1:05.3 | doing what Kansas just did. Voters in Kansas, as you may recall, overwhelmingly came down in favor of abortion rights, |
| 1:12.6 | and voters are going to do the same in other states, red states and purple states as soon as they |
| 1:17.6 | have a chance. More than 750,000 eligible voters in Michigan signed petitions to get the amendment |
| 1:24.7 | onto the ballot this November, close to double the number of |
| 1:28.8 | signatures required. So yeah, that thing is going to pass if and when it makes it onto the ballot |
| 1:34.3 | in Michigan. And it still might make it under the ballot this November. A lawsuit has already been |
| 1:40.0 | filed. What I'm concerned about today right now is a 1931 law that came back into effect in |
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