California's Proposition 8: the Elimination of Gay Marriage?
51How will your vote on Proposition 8 effect California?
Voting NO on PROPOSITION 8
• will define MARRIAGE in California to mean a union between any two people regardless of gender, which would include same-sex couples.
• No change to the California State Constitution will occur.
Voting YES on PROPOSITION 8
• will define MARRIAGE in California to mean only a union between one man and one woman.
• YES will add exactly 14 words to the California State Constitution: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."
Voting Yes will change the California State Constitution. Regardless of personal opinions on gay marriage I'm flabbergasted that there can be a proposition that would alter our state constitution. Is there actually that much hate being passed around that there is a movement to alter our constitution permanently??
$60 million dollars have been raised on this debate. Currently it's about 1/2 and 1/2 for each side. I've listened to both arguments and still cannot grasp the reason that anyone would care so much as to raise $30 million dollars fighting someone's right to be happy. How would one's gay next-door neighbors being able to legally celebrate their love impact those straight neighbors negatively? Gays are not like Jahova's Witnesses who try and spread their gospel. They are just trying to enjoy their life to the fullest like anyone else. And if anything, I think your hypothetical neighbors making their love legal would be a positive example to your theoretical children instead of somehow "tainting" their innocence.
Instead of fighting someone's happiness we should be embracing our differences and teaching acceptance, not just tolerance, to our children. No one is asking a straight person to marry someone of the same sex. And no one will tell your children that they should do like-wise. Think of the impact of targeting one group so directly that we're considering writing discrimination into our constitution. I'm voting "No" on Proposition 8.
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I agree with your statement. I can't believe how much money is wasted on the protest of this proposition. Its focus is "Gay marriages will be taught in classrooms". This is a false statement. There is nothing written in any California education plateform that says that teachers must educated gays in school. Couldn't that money be used on something useful? Like helping people save their homes from foreclosure? Save local businesses? Helping the homeless? I mean, come on! VOTE "NO". I'm sick of only hearing the conservative point of view on this topic. They only seem to make ignorant statements about this proposition. Everyone should be allowed to marry. It funny how people forget what happened back in old days when the issues were a lot more colorful than what we are facing today. It makes you want to slap sense into people for being stupid.
I think a solid majority of Californians favored keeping the law as is, until out-of-state Mormon activists, who are bankrolling 40-70% of the Prop 8 effort, started instilling doubt in voters through a flood of ads claiming that children will be force-fed gay marriage, churches will go bankrupt, etc.
Let's all hope it doesn't pass. California is supposed to lead the nation in progressiveness; it really is the source of our creativity and innovativeness. It's no mistake that the country's (and world's) technology and media heart are in California, and not Utah.
Thank you for the youtube link! It really underscores how preposterous this prop really is.
You might be interested in the two hubs I have talked about this issue in: http://hubpages.com/hub/California-Issues-on-the-N and http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Case-for-legalizing-Ga
Since this is a matter of law, not religion or morals, equality demands a no vote on Prop 8. When churches are the ones issuing marriage licenses, then there will be no need for legislation either way and same sex couples will continue to go to the churches that already accommodate them for these rites.
My hubs mentioned above discuss this, and point out that there has been no moral downfall in countries who already make no mention of gender in their marriage laws.
There are happy and unhappy unions in both hetero and homo sexual relationships.. a legal contract such as marriage has little to do with the outcome of any union, and that is what should be feared as "tainting" children. Many gay households where there is a loving relationship have healthy happy children who just happen to be a bit more educated on the many facets of human kind.
I agree with you on this one.
I agree with you
My Motto:You should be allowed to do anything that makes you happy as long as nobody gets hurt in the process and by hurt I mean tangibly (punched etc)
Sterling Sage says:
14 months ago
I completely agree.
Please also read my related hub, http://hubpages.com/hub/Taking-Down-the-Straight-O
May fairness and compassion prevail!