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Well, I really didn’t think Prop. 8 would pass, but I’m glad it did. It’s not discrimination, it’s just protecting traditional values.

Thank God! Now our churches are protected from attacks when they would be sued for refusing to perform these marriages due to religious beliefs. I have gay friends and I believe they have rights too – this one just opened the door to all that is ugly. We need religion intact or we go down for the last time. That takes precidence.

Yes! Thanks to everyone who helped pass Prop 8!

You have successfully protected our children from the idea that America offers equality for all!

Unbelievable.

Kims last blog post..Stop reading this and get your ass to the booths…

one more thing: If it hadn’t been for the LIBERAL California Supreme Court, there wouldn’t have been any “Gay Marriages” performed over the last 6 months….. The black robes caused the confusion and much of the problem by overturning the last vote of the people (66% of the people).

Discrimination is discrimination no matter how you try and justify it. How sad that so many are caught up in their own personal beliefs can’t see there is a whole segment of the population (who still live among us as families) has been denied a right that belongs to us all. When Jesus lived on earth he veered toward the oppressed and the judged (including a divorced woman – which the bible calls an abomination.) How sad, that in the name of Jesus, so many people are now the oppressors.

Well I guess this really is the most conservative country in the developed world. So ironic that you Americans take pride in freedom and liberty. It’s good to know that most educated people voted no though.

Gays have all the legal rights as straights in a domestic partnership. Gay people argue civil rights. If it is a civil rights issue, should 2 brothers or a brother and sister be allowed to marry. How about a 50 year old father and his 18 year old daughter? This may sound sick to people, but if you argue “civil liberties” then any 2 adults would be allowed to marry. How about polygamy? If 5 women are OK with marrying 1 man or vice versa, gay people are OK with that as well. I am not. We need to draw the line somewhere. The line has been drawn

For those of you who truly believe domestic partnerships are equal to marriage, I challenge you to swap your traditional marriage for a domestic partnership for one year. Then tell me they are equal.

Time and time again, it has been proven that separate is never equal.

I’m with the more confused masses. As a lesbian woman (which will of course make some of you stop reading this immediately), I don’t honestly understand how you think your life will be affected in any way if I were to get married. I have no interest in involving anyone in the elaborate process outside of my friends or family.

Guys… you’re not special. Nor are you victims. No one is after you with their ‘agenda’. Gays couldn’t care less about you if you would stop interfering in their every day life. I don’t think any homosexuals getting married are going to be trying to invite you to their weddings, nor asking you to marry them. We know you don’t like us. Believe me. You remind us every chance you can get.

Oh – and no. Humans are not the only species that practice homosexuality. Nor does it have no evolutionary purpose. Do some research before you make bold statements. Seriously.

The First Amendment says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

So technically, if marriage is a religious thing, there shouldn’t be laws about it anyway. And it’s not about ‘redefining’ marriage. The whole point is that there is no _State-Enforced_ definition of marriage in the first place. They do not tell churches what they can and can’t think. They just don’t let one particular religion or group _impose_ its particular definitions on other people.

Why the masses of churches out there think I would WANT to get married within their walls when I could go where I’m welcomed is beyond me. It’s like wearing a Rays shirt in Phildelphia. You can do things as you have from the dawn of time for all I care. I don’t want to change your church or your morals or – what else are you feeling threatened by – I don’t want to talk to your children about my love life or seduce your sister or whatever else you think my being able to marry is going to harm in your daily life.

Anyone who’s heard/said the exhilarating words, “Will you marry me?” from down on one knee should understand why homosexual people would want to say/hear them. I want to wear a wedding dress some day. I want flowers and a piece of wedding cake in my freezer and to be pelted with rice while running to a car with tin cans tied to the back. I want a ring that means something.

Religion brings hope and peace and stability to millions of families world wide – that it has to have this dark underside of intolerance is ultimately distressing. The bible’s good words were used to justify American’s slavery of Africans. It was used to justify the Spanish Inquisition. It was used to justify both the scourging witch-hunts of the Middle-Ages and their American counterparts. We all know this was not the bible’s intent for mankind… yet they were done just the same.

Don’t misuse it now. I just want a cake and a dance with my old dad and a ring. I promise you don’t have to watch.

I’m so confused about how allowing gay marriage will affect the rights of straight people! Why can’t they just let homosexuals marry? Is it a matter of religion, the fact that it says homosexuality is an abomination in the Bible?! Because the Bible also extremely sexist and allows slavery and we don’t have that today. What is the POINT of forbidding gay people to marry? Can some explain because I am straight, but if I was gay, I would want to get married to my partner like everyone else. You can’t control who you love.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

@27 (Chelsee):

I believe many of your ponits reinforce conservative family values. Being in a monogomous relationship, having a wedding, creating a stable home to raise children are all conservative values. This being done by homosexuals has no affect on anyone – period.

Keep your hopes up. History has shown that human rights will win in the long run.

BTW – you can invite me to your wedding anytime!!