About 30 minutes ago, the California Supreme Court upheld the ban on same-sex marriages brought on by Prop. 8 in our last election. Kinda of ironic that we elected our first black president, but 52% of voters here in usually liberal California decided to deny progress in gay rights.
But seriously, why is Prop. 8 being upheld? The core of Prop. 8 is simply religious dialogue at best. As much as you people tout that this country was founded on religious principals, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. An overwhelming majority of the Founding Fathers, people you supports claim are your inspiration, were Deists.
A deist is some one who, overall, doesn’t buy the “spirituality” aspect of Christianity and more importantly to Prop. 8 supporters: they don’t buy the “literal interpretation of the Bible” aspect either.
They recognize the Bible for what it is: Man’s interpretation of God, albeit a rough and biased one. The only TRUE way you can interpret the Bible is to read it in ancient Greek. Do you happen to speak the language of Philosophers you religious zealots? No, you simply sit there and nod your heads at text designed to work 2000 years ago. If you go to a court and say “The Bible told me to”, your defense will not win.
The Bible is right: you are all simply sheep.
And for those who support Prop. 8 for reasons other than religiously-approved bigotry, then please, I beg of you to tell me what your reasoning is. I love to hear every side!
Damn, that sucks. You’re right – it’s the last thing I would have expected California to do. This really demonstrates just how much of a grip misguided religious rhetoric has on the US legal system.
The highest right God gives us is the right to free choice. It’s not up to the courts to decide for us, what we can and cannot do.
Had they actually *looked* at divorce rate figures, they might have found that there is far less emotional trauma in a gay marriage than in a straight one – I’m pretty sure gay couples don’t divorce and leave young children behind.
So yes, this is religion-motivated, and it’s embarassing, actually.
Yes. But it will be challenged next year hopefully. Something like this can not stand.
It is very sad that a small group of people can get such a large amount of support like this. Christianity in the US needs to learn that it can not put belief in as law. I expect this to be either overturned or shot down in 2010.
Hey there. I was pretty upset with the decision as well, and then to have it upheld 6-1 is even more disturbing. And then, I find extremely disturbing, that gay marriages that were performed prior to the ban can remain legit. If those can be legit, why can’t all? One of the most stupidest court decisions I’ve read about, and I’m sad to say that my home state is run by fucktards. Later.
Lets hope this is overturned with a new vote in 2010, but in time it will be overturned, The under 30 generation are going to change the direction of this country, and as more and more get involved and vote the haters will become a much smaller minority as time goes by.