To those who voted yes on Proposition 8

[docwebster]

I maintain that if you are expected to pay taxes, if you are eligible to fight for and possibly lay down your life in the service of your country, and if you are expected to vote a man or a woman into the highest office in the land, then you are entitled to the exact same benefits, legal and spiritual, as any other human being walking the face of this planet. This is sadly not the case in everyday practice and a truly sorry state of affairs for a country that has the brass to call itself civilized. If your mind and spirit are so infinitesimal you would deny two or three or four or more people in love the right to be married and to call it marriage based on so utterly ridiculous a criteria as sexual preference then I truly pity you. Don't try to throw that miserable sack of crap about "choice to be gay" or some variation thereof at me. I'm going to stop this post right here because the thinking of people who actually supported this legislation sickens me as do the people who voted for it.

Comments

[necrotica.livejournal.com]

You said it so much more eloquently than I could.

The "choice to be gay" argument is so incredibly stupid. By their reasoning, that means people also "choose to be heterosexual"!

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I found out that the wingnuts had received funding from all over the country to push Prop 8 through. CA may want to think about enacting legislation that prohibits anyone from receiving funding from out of state to push state legislation.

[kshandra]

Of a higher priority to us (once 8 is overturned) is enacting legislation that requires a 2/3 majority to amend our state constitution. Because the fact that this was able to pass with a simple majority is ludicrous.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I think it actually hasn't passed yet - they're still counting votes as of the last time I heard. Also, the ACLU is suing because it appears there is a clause that says such a thing cannot be put on the ballot without first having the CA congress review it (see http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/37706prs20081105.html

"The California Constitution itself sets out two ways to alter the document that sets the most basic rules about how state government works. Through the initiative process, voters can make relatively small changes to the constitution. But any measure that would change the underlying principles of the constitution must first be approved by the legislature before being submitted to the voters. That didn't happen with Proposition 8, and that's why it's invalid."

Now is the time to push

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

The People have spoken as is their right. I believe they are wrong but I respect their decision. So now is the time, more than ever, to step up campaigning to push for the rights of Americans who are homosexual to the same rights and privileges of straight Americans. An American's right to choose his sexuality is no less important than her right to religious preference our his right to equal treatment in all things under the law.

I think now is the time to educate those Americans who know practically nothing about homosexuality but what they've heard through be grapevine, to make them think about the issue instead of blindly accepting grandfather's opinion. To actually make them see what the issues are.

This election has brought the subject to even rural America so we must not let the opportunity to look the issue in the eye, to make them think. Instead of being disheartened we should push as hard as we can to keep this alive on a national basis.

Please forgive my manner of speaking, it wasn't that long ago my attitudes about this subject were more traditional. It was getting to know homosexuals personally that I began to realize how little a person's sexual preferences actually meant to their humanity.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Anyone who voted for it or supports it needs to get the hell off my friends list, NOW.

*simmer*