proposition 8 Options

[*Janette*]

By a vote of 6-1 (with Justice Carlos Moreno dissenting), the California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8 -- while preserving the marriage licenses of 18,000 same-sex couples who wed in the months prior to the November election. Paul Hogarth is reading the 185-page Court decision as we speak, and will be reporting later today with his legal analysis of the Court's reasoning.

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/BREAKI...rop_8_6962.html

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[hi-C]

I'm disappointed and disgusted. Talk about legislating from the bench. This is like Plessy v. Ferguson.

[kryogenix]

I'm disappointed and disgusted. Talk about legislating from the bench. This is like Plessy v. Ferguson.

Ummmmm... this wasn't legislated from the bench. Guess where it was legislated from. I'll give you a hint: another name for Prop 8 is California Ballot Measure 8.

Yep, you guessed it, this wasn't decided by judges; it was decided by the people of California. Of course, the gay agenda attempted to use activist judges to try to legislate from the bench by throwing a shitstorm to try to get it overturned.

In all seriousness, I'm not happy with proposition 8 because I don't want the government to be involved in marriage whatsoever. But between right to freedom of religion and the privilege of getting married, I think the former trumps the latter.

[hi-C]

Yep, you guessed it, this wasn't decided by judges; it was decided by the people of California. Of course, the gay agenda attempted to use activist judges to try to legislate from the bench by throwing a shitstorm to try to get it overturned.

In all seriousness, I'm not happy with proposition 8 because I don't want the government to be involved in marriage whatsoever. But between right to freedom of religion and the privilege of getting married, I think the former trumps the latter.

Be that as it may: 1) If one group is being unfairly discriminated against by anyone, then it's the responsibility of the government to protect that group and 2) Religion has nothing to do with marriage. One party having a penis and the other having a vagina has nothing to do with religion. Atheists can get married and religious gays can't?