Proposition 8 is a proposed amendment to the California Constitution to redefine marriage to be only “valid or recognized” if it is between two people of opposite sex. It’ll likely go down in flames, mostly due to the outstanding work of California Attorney General Jerry Brown to force the proposition to be titled by what it will actually do – eliminate right of citizens of California to marry whoever they may choose.
Which brings me to the big question I’d like to pose – and if anyone out there has an answer for it, or even part of an answer, I’m all ears. I understand some people have a problem with gay people. Some people have a problem with gay sex. Some people have a problem with gay marriage. Awesome, we don’t agree, I strongly believe you are inflicting unnecessary and unwarranted pain and alienation on good people – but I’m not going to try to change you.
My question is, how on earth is it a good idea to throw our government into this conflict? Why would anyone want the state bureaucracy telling them who they can and can’t marry? How is it in our best interest to have our government regulating who we fall in love with, who we sleep with, who we choose to spend the rest of our lives with?
Talk about big government. Telling us who we can and can’t marry? It doesn’t get much bigger than that.
Vote NO on 8. Keep government out of our love lives, our bedrooms, and our hearts.
They think that gays represent the moral decay of our society and a shift away from christian doctrine. If you were Mormon, you’d see that as a threat to your way of life. You don’t want your kid to even know that there is such a thing as gay, except as a word to describe being elated and happy.
I see Prop 8 as an amazing marketing and advertising campaign by bigoted religious people who have created an amazingly effective voice. It makes me sad to say it, but I think the measure will probably pass.
I voted against it, obviously. I enjoy my freedom of religion, speech, and ability to sleep with whomever I want. Preferably cute girls over ugly girls.
To whom it may concern,
It isn’t that the government is being thrusted into the arena of public affairs…You had dictators in black robes guising as juris telling the people of California that they do not know what is good for them and it is the job of the California State Supreme Court to save us from ourselves once again.
We wouldn’t be voting on Prop 8 if the state juris told the people of California that there votes didn’t count. I suspect that illegal immigration will be another hot topic in the near future with the credit crunch coming and jobs and resources going out to the non-citizens of this country. I am for people being able to vote and there vote counting. As for your position that the government is making decisions for the populace…look at who has been running this state(Ca.) for the past forty years and the fact that San Francisco has the highest rate of taxes per capitia. Why do you think that is??? The local government give-aways are what is causing the local government to tax the people and the state government then puts your taxes ‘In a Lock Box’ in Sacramento, that your local government o(fficials have to hire lobbiest to try and get some of there own taxes back to support and pay for infrustructure. KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!!!