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Dan H.
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Congrats to the CA newly weds!!!
June 17, 2008 12:59 PM EDT
(Updated: June 17, 2008 01:01 PM EDT)
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I am very happy to say that I am from a state that has finally taken a step forward for the equal rights of humanity. CA has become the second state to officially recognize and allow for gay marriages, a right that should be afforded to all legally consenting, of age couples. Gay rights are human rights. I am proud of my state!
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Nothing my GLBT friends do with their consenting GLBT partners has any freaking effect on what I do with my guy. They work, they pay taxes, raise families, and go to jail when they break the law just like everyone else.
"evil became good" when we let neocons in our bedrooms to regulate what we can do privately, but they don't regulate corporations so corps get to screw us anyway they feel like it!
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
--Evelyn Beatrice Hall (often mis-attributed to Voltaire)
This is an outrage, and these "marriages" will be nullified when it comes back up to vote before the People in November.
Nice that you are proud of your state....I am not against gays ....but I am against allowing something that goes against God 's law and Nature's law. They can do what ever they want but they do not have to tell us about something that should be kept private ...
Good for California! I can only hope the rest of the states will follow in California's footsteps.
Stop hiding behind religion as a reason why gays should not be married.
would be seen as a love affair between 2 people with all the rights and respondsabilities like anyother couple. Way to go cali
I do, however, understand the strong feelings, here.
The other day I was driving thru Ferndale Mi, (know for the gay community) and when i looked over at the Court house there were at least 50 gay couples out there doing a group wedding.
I am sorry but this made so happy!!
Good for them! Good for them finding Love in no matter what sex!
I totally support gay rights and am thrilled that Cali stepped up and recogized that!!!!!!
And to the comment that Mark-John K. Left:
You may want to look up the deffination of "marriage" according to wilkipedia it states that
"Marriage is a personal union of individuals"
it says
NOTHING
about it being "man and woman"
The group: We Comment Back
look for my article soon on just that subject.
Im glad to see the Constitution being used again, protecting personal freedoms. Im sick of the government putting their noses in everything!
It's no one elses business. It's not for others to define what marriage is, for others.
The opposers of human rights are so unbelievably arrogant.
Disasters being blamed on homosexualality? A punishment from God, for human sexual behavior?
Did it ever occur to the arragant a#&holes that it is their hatred, and the hardness of their hearts, against others, that could ,possably, have brought about the wrath of God bringing about floods, and the shaking of the earth? Hatred is the evil. Bigotry, in all it's forms, is the evil detestable thing.
Hatred is the abomination!
Congrats to the newly freed humans!
A toast for liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness!
God bless America!
Glory be to God, on high!!!
Freedoms rings, in California, today!!!
"Sorry to see the downfall of marriage"
posted by Andrea L.
mean? Downfall???
How rude!
I loved reading your comment!
As for the change in CA, I am curious to see how things will shape up in November, but I do hope thing remain on track and the marriages are allowed. Mainly because this is another step in the right direction. Remember, the world is getting smaller as time goes on. As a result we need to adapt and move on if we are all going to co-exist. There is enough other issues we can fix rather than focusing on trying to keep homosexuals from being married.
But I love my gay friends a bunch, and so it's nice to see that states are giving them the right to be together.
Anyone care to notice that the People of California voted against this, 61%-39%?
It won't stand, and in November the People will vote for an Amendment to the Constitution.
But total strangers can be married legally (by a minister!) on the reality show "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire". THAT redefined marriage forever, not a gay marriage. Where was your outrage with that? Oh, but they are straight so it's okay.
I don't watch "reality" show's. Now I know why.
Melissa, you don't have any idea who I am...or what I think. Where did I say that this was a political issue?
STILL no response to the fact that a MAJORITY of Americans, INCLUDING Californians, are against redefining Marriage, hhmmmnn?
61%-39% AGAINST; but the "Courts" told the People to go to hell.
That should bother you all.
You've nailed it...makes you wonder why we vote at all...
Sure, there's a tig of war, back and forth. Slavery was hard fought for, against freedom, and freedom won. Women had a hard long fight, as well to simply vote.
The majority may want to stick there noses into the private lives of others, and deny the rights of freedom for a long time, but eventually, the advocates of oppresion, and the opposers of human rights always, always fall!
I'm afraid that you are confused. This has nothing to do with "Human Rights" or the "private lives" of others. This has to do with the RE-definition of Marriage. And, 5 Judges who have told the People of California to go to hell.
Marriage is between a man and a woman. I don't know why that is such a problem. And all those gays that are NOT from Californication and got married there and then go back to their states, do they know that their marriage will NOT be recognized by their state?
Great analogy!
Shelbia-
Are you one of those against gun ownership?
I'm not complaining, I'm stating the fact that 5 Judges in California told the People to "shut up" while they write their OWN "Laws." Would you like YOUR vote to be so dismissed?
Let's see if that works. ; )
Kay, you are absolutely Priceless!!! I think I'll just let you handle this from here...
I hope for your children's sake that none of them are gay.
I'm sure it wasn't a MAJORITY decision by the people to let blacks or women vote, but we have the rights don't we? It's a civil rights issue. Not a political issue at all. Which is why a majority vote of the people shouldn't matter.
It is (painfully) obvious that you are "careless" about the will of the majority. This is, of course, all about what Melissa wants. The word "narcissism" comes to mind.
Interestingly, it WAS the will of the majority to enact the "Civil Rights Act." Through their elected Representatives, the will of the People was expressed by their Representatives, with the following result:
U.S Senate.....73-27 = 73%-27%
U.S. House.....289-126 = 70%-30%
So, the MAJORITY is important. See anything familiar about these numbers?
Aside from the State of Massachusetts, "same-sex" marriage has been defeated by majority, by the People, every time it has been put to a vote. Imagine 5 morons, who, legislating from the bench, overturn that vote, ignoring the will of the majority.
Imagine, Melissa, what would have happened if those same 5 morons came along and struck down the vote of the MAJORITY in the Civil Rights case! Imagine!
So, you see, Melissa, the majority DOES matter. Unless, of course, you disagree with it.
Um, why hasn't the gay community fought for this??/ Because they KNOW it will NEVER pass. The majority rules. That's democracy.
Melissa....Mark John is correct, the laws that were passed to allow women to vote and allow blacks to vote and allow civil rights were passed because the majority ruled. BTW, black men were allowed to vote before women were allowed to vote. Women took to the streets and protested and marched and FOUGHT for the RIG HT to vote. So, why can't the gay community do the same?
Thank you MJ
Thank You!
NOT to mention what it's like these days to be a white male! You should see some of the looks I get when I hold a door for a woman. And have you seen some of the latest commercials??? ...EVERY white male's a moron...