Against Hate and Prop 8 Series – Volume V
Recently we asked for reader feedback on why they are against Prop 8 and for gay equality. For more information on this open call for participation and using YOUR voice: Why Are You Against Prop 8? Share Your Stories. Keep your submissions coming, here is Volume V!
“It’s simple. Prop 8 does NOT protect a single marriage. Rather, Prop 8 destroys the marriages of many men and women in California, removes their children’s legal protections and the children’s right to receive
child support. Prop 8 refuses men and women the right to visit their spouse in the ICU to say goodbye and destroys their ability to make critical care decisions for their loved ones. Prop 8 weakens the structure of families as well as preventing new families from being formed. It also attacks the right of individual churches to conduct marriages according to the terms that they see fit.
In their zealous attempts to get Prop 8 to pass to “defend” marriage, the Religious Right has completed the handover of the institution of “marriage” to the government. By having the GOVERNMENT define marriage
rather than the church of the couple entering into the union, they have done far more damage to the institution of marriage than anything or anyone else could ever do. There’s a saying “Don’t dance with the
devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you.” I deeply hope that those who pushed to pass Prop 8 discover the true meaning of this very soon. The separation of church and state does not exist to benefit
the state so much as it exists to benefit religion.” -Sara E., New York, NY
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“As a society, we need to be moving in the direction of greater rights. Prop 8 is the first law I can remember in my lifetime that takes away already-granted rights from just one class of people. This is discrimination even worse than passing laws to keep gay marriage from happening or being recognized in places where it never was, because this is saying to one category of people, sorry, you don’t count any more, you can have the back of the bus.
At the same time, the climate is shifting ad I see this setback as temporary. The presence of gay marriage initiatives forced even George W. Bush to say he was in favor of civil unions, a few years ago.
I live in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage has been legal for several years. Even the hardline conservatives don’t seem to think the sky has fallen.” -Shel Horowitz, author of Principled
Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, MA
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” .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } It’s amazing how Prop 8 has garnered interest from the entire nation. Why am I against Prop 8? Simply put, the government – local, state or national - should be able to legislate whom a person can marry. Period. I am quite passionate about that because in 1967, when my parents were married, their marriage was still considered illegal in several states due to anti-miscegenation laws at the time. These such laws, whether anti-miscegenation or anti-gay marriage or whatever, are based solely on fear and ignorance. If two people love each other and want to make a commitment to each other, in sickness and in health, then those two people should have every right to do so, without the government making those decisions.” - Sylke, Portland, OR
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Random Posts:
- Twin Tiers Pride: The GLBT-Straight Alliance of the Twin Tiers
- NYC Protest Rally Against Prop 8 – May 26, 2009: New York Marriage Equality Now
- PR from Fight OUT Loud: Jim Naugle Uses Tax Dollars to Incite Violence in South Florida
- June 3rd – Vanessa Williams Benefit for LIFEbeat in NYC
- October 29th: Equality Is Good Medicine: No on Proposition 8 Rally
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