http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-sex-marriage-prop-8-ruled-unconstitutional/1 Let's hear some thoughts and please try not to offend anyone.
This is where same sex marriages become controversial. I am a pro-homosexual person (even though I have a kid and a partner) I believe that every right a heterosexual has, a homosexual has. Love knows no boundaries, and this law is unconstitutional. It rapes homosexuals of their freedom of choice (Amendment Number #?) and suppresses them. It's bad enough we have stupid organisations like the KKK and God Hates Fags, let alone a politician coming involved. Of course, politicians love sticking their noses into that one book and declaring our ways should follow a book that has been edited throughout time to suit the Church. Because now, apparently, it is a sin to not recycle. Where did Jesus say that? Technically speaking it's not a sin to be a homosexual but to get involved in homosexual acts (yet it's ok for priests to molest young boys? Isn't that a homosexual act?) I don't know about some states in America, but I do know that England legalises gay marriage, but Australia also condemns gay marriage and yet, a gay couple is recognised by Centrelink? (The social welfare office). No one should be judged on their sexual orientation, as like nobody should be judged on their skin colour. I think most politicians have the Bible shoved up their ass way too far. /no offence.
Thanks you, Alejandro. I am very pro-homosexuality and find it appalling that there are still laws violating the rights of gays. Marriage is a human right, not a heterosexual privilege. This is one very big step in the right direction.
I think this is wonderful news! As a bisexual woman, with a large amount of gay and lesbian friends, I was seriously disappointed in my fellow Californians for ever voting this ridiculous amendment into being in the first place. But that being said, the National Organization for Marriage can go fuck themselves. All their scare tactics and hate mongering to convince people that being gay is wrong is a fucking joke.
Wonderful news. Hopefully it will be legal in all 50 states soon. Don't like gay marriage? Then don't get one and shut the fuck up.
I'm of the opinion that most of the world has the potential to love both genders and it's just social corruption/some religious views that keeps us from realizing it. I won't ever consider myself one of the either and I call myself Bisexual for lack of a better term for it. I don't like labels in general. We love who we love, whichever gender. In any case this is great news because that bias bull shit was pissing me off. Let's all hope for great things to come out of the other states too.
I'd like to add a post here that Mark from LPL made. I love my girlfriend and I'm not gay of course but you can't just all of a sudden screw someone's rights over like that. The good thing about the US law is that it applies equally to everyone. OR SHOULD. We're SLOWLY fixing that throughout history. Slavery, women's rights, all that got fixed...now the next thing is for homosexuals to be able to get married. Thankfully it's getting handled. I also see a huge problem with REVERSE affirmative action right now in this country but that's another issue itself. You can't just pick and choose who gets certain rights - that's stupid. So I fully support this overturn. I wish the Bible wasn't so intertwined with the Government. If we could get it untangled then we wouldn't have such problems like this. Oh well. I know it says separation of church and state but I think no one takes that shit seriously. It's never been fully like that and I don't think it ever will be no matter how much I want it to be. This is NOT a state issue. If people wouldn't vote to make it illegal then the government wouldn't have a problem. It should be legal, there's nothing else to say about it. It's plain and simple discrimination if it's illegal. It's SEX, let people fucking do it however they want. There's some crazy people out there, I really do NOT care. If it's not for you then don't do it, fuck your girlfriend instead! NO reason to discriminate. Religion is a joke. People rely on a book to tell them exactly how to live their life. They spend hours in a church praying for what they want to happen to them after they die, lol WTF. Just live your life. Obviously other people feel differently but I really don't care what happens to me after I die. I really think you just go to the ground. People that are Christians or say they are have SO many double standards just like Jen said. They'll say gay people are going to hell but they had premarital sex in the back of their car at age 18 without protection on birth control and say they're perfect under the eyes of God. Are you fucking kidding me? If there is a God I highly doubt he gives a flying fuck what sex you had sex with. There's so much more to life than just that. Christians are telling me someone can be like a relief worker and help people out their entire lives, always putting others first, but because they are homosexual they're going to hell. What the fuck. That is the most fucked up thing I've ever heard. I have a huge problem with religion.
I will never understand the right wing's obsession with what other people do in their private bedrooms. It wasn't until 2003 that it was even legal in Texas for two men to engage in sex (see Lawrence v. Texas). WHY? Why does it matter to anyone else if 2 guys fuck each other in the privacy of their own home? If they're both consenting adults, why should anyone else give a damn? I will never, ever understand the fascination these people have with what others do in their own life. And the hypocrisy of them is endless. Take Newt Gingrich for example. Today he released a statement talking about how marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and this will ruin the sanctity of marriage, blah blah blah. Don't know Newt's marital history? Well, let me share that with you. He's currently on his third wife. His third wife was his mistress he was fucking while married to his second wife. So what's more sacred? Being married 3 times, including cheating on one of your wives? Or two men or women who love each other getting married and staying faithful to them for the rest of their lives? And I think what sickens me more is that besides Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, who are just preaching to the choir, why aren't any of the incompetent assholes in the mainstream media calling them out on their hypocrisy? Newt doesn't miss a chance to get his fat ass in front of a camera, why won't anyone call him out on it? The right wing are a bunch of hypocrites and the media is worthless.
I thought that was pretty smart for three paragraphs or so, then it sort of turned into an immature rant. In any case, I'm happy for the peope who were against it.
C'mon, let's get someone in this thread that was for Prop 8. I've always been curious as to how a caveman's brain works.
BUT HAVENT YOU GUIZE HEARD FROM AHNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER? But in all seriousness, even though I am part of a Mormon church (sorta), it doesn't really matter to me whether gay people do get married. It is their choice. People may have their thoughts on it, but all in all, there is nothing from stopping homosexuality occurring anywhere in the world. If they want to be married, then more power to them. It's not keeping me from going to sleep at night, or eating my cornflakes in the morning. The Prop. 8 thing is a definite issue on keeping church away from state, and Prop. 8 seems to violate the very first amendment of the bill of rights. For those who aren't American who are reading this, the first amendment to the Bill of Rights is - and last time I checked, saying I Do is free speech, no matter what sexual orientation you are and Prop.8 seemed to try to violate this, by preventing gays and lesbians to say I Do at the altar.
The sad thing is, the public voted Prop 8 into effect. In California. California! We have a long way to go.