This post took many weeks to write, primarily because every time I started putting down my thoughts I would get very angry and start insulting people. And while I will still insult people, believe me, I've held back.
Proposition 8 seeks to overturn the landmark May 15 decision which granted the fundamental right of marriage to same-sex couples in California. To me, this election has become all about this particular proposition. A little single-minded, maybe, but the race for president isn't exactly keeping me at the edge of my seat, whereas this issue is in jeopardy. I always figured it was just a matter of time until gay marriage was legalized in California, and once it was, gay rights would never look back. But here I am facing the very real possibility that this amazing state of ours could actually take a giant step backwards. I'm absolutely terrified that 8 days from now my hours of poring over election data and pie charts will culminate in the news that proposition 8 has passed. I'm trying now to imagine how that would feel and I can't.
You can be pro-life and I'll understand. You can be pro-guns, pro capital punishment, and pro seceding from the Union. But if you are pro Prop 8, a proposition that if it passes or it doesn't pass WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR LIFE ONE LITTLE BIT, then I refuse to even try and understand your justifications. In May 2008 a whole lot of people were lifted up from second-class citizen status. If you are voting Yes on Prop 8 then all you're doing is ruining the happiness of millions of people and hurting a very important civil rights cause.
Do the right thing November 4th. VOTE NO.
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And abusing the rationale behind the state constitution. This argument is oddly missing from all of the public discussion.
The constitution lays out the powers of government, and confers the specific powers granted from the citizenry to its government.
Amending the constitution to overrule legislators and judges, who acted with the authority conferred through that same constitution, is absurd on its face.
If one does not agree with their elected government, vote them out!
Oops, forgot, the gerrymandering makes that impossible. Okay, there is a practical flaw with that argument, but it is still absurd to abuse the constitution to veto judicial decision.
It seems as if we come fully back to "do the ends justify the means?" And both sides on this proposition seem to agree on this point.
Not that I even live in America, but over here across the sea, the ideal of same sex marriage has become horribly warped as we are in the midst of our first same sex divorce or 'dissolution' as they are calling it. Celebrity Matt Lucas, of comic fame for British sketch show 'Little Britain' is dissolving his marriage because of 'irreconcilable differences'. He now stands to lose part of his fortune to a man who gladly sat at home and did nothing whilst Lucas built a career. What a plague we have inflicted upon Gay society with! Marriage is but a formality; Gays have been free to love each other since the beginning of time; isn't that what matters? What is marriage but a textualisation of love, tying you in legal form to somebody you should already be tied to emotionally? I say the gays were better off unmarried, and happily face the wrath of any bleeding heart liberals who disagree. Marriage is unnatural in today's fickle society and only brings about misery for most people. How many people reading this have experience of a divorce in their immediate family? Quite a few i'll bet. I know I do. And it Fu%£ed everybody involved up pretty bad.
Hey, I'm with you, I think marriage is a hoax. 50% get divorced and the rest just stay miserable forever. But it's not up to us straight people to tell gay people "you think you want this but actually, you don't". Marriage is a fundamental right. Sort of like falling of your bike or getting chicken pox. And it shouldn't be in anyone's power to take that away.
Also, bleeding heart liberal? I resent that.
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