http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_152545.html
I simple cannot believe they want to undo previously recognized gay marriages. This is such a social step backwards that it truly boggles my mind. To me, this is akin to shoving someone's face in the mud after tripping them. I am so opposed to this proposition that these actions really make my blood boil. I'm a mellow guy, and have no fighting ability, but this is the sort of thing that could change all that if my marriage were threatened by a group trying to change my life.The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief arguing that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions. The document reveals for the first time that opponents of same-sex marriage will fight in court to undo those unions that already exist.
Again, I think John Stewart gets it so bang on while discussing the issue with Mike Huckabee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2MCscO9r0
Huckabee: Let's face it the only way we can produce the next generation is by a male/female relationship.
-Completely untrue. My sperm can be frozen and used down the road to inseminate a woman's fertile egg without having laid eyes on each other. Should we now change the meaning of the word relationship?
Stewart is absolutely right in pointing out how marriage has evolved over the last 5000 years. It hasn't always JUST been one man, one woman.
Many people still believe that being gay is a choice. Why would being gay be a choice and being straight not a choice? There is so much underlying prejudice with this issue that many won't admit to. Why should gay people have to make their case to get married?
It's ironic actually for me to be so passionate about this because I'm not a huge fan of marriage, LOL!!
Regarding Supreme Court intervention, Prop 8 supporters made the following statement:
Be very careful what you ask for. Someday that same law may come around against your best interests, and you'll be whining your rights are being infringed upon."For this court to rule otherwise would be to tear asunder a lavish body of jurisprudence," the court papers state. "That body of decisional law commands judges _ as servants of the people _ to bow to the will of those whom they serve _ even if the substantive result of what people have wrought in constitution-amending is deemed unenlightened."


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