The reason why gays aren’t included under equal protection clauses is because the Civil Rights act and other Federal laws prohibiting discrimination does not include “sexual orientation”.

We already have Federal laws prohibiting discrimination and no State law could override that because Federal law is the highest law of the land.

1. Ban Mormonism under penalty of death. The state of Missouri used to have a law which made it legal to shoot Mormons on site. Perhaps this could be Prop # something.

2. Since African-Americans voted somewhere between 70-75%, then perhaps we can get a Proposition on the ballot which requires that anyone more than 1/4 African-American be immediately stripped of all rights as an American citizen and repatriated back to Africa. If the people vote YES, we can always use the “the voters have spoken” mantra.

3. Latinos and a few other ethnic minorities voted yes, so how about we extend them the same courtesy. Since marriage rights entail more than 1,100 rights, liberties, privileges and responsibilities we can return the favor. We can pass a Proposition in which all non-documented immigrants and those harboring them shall be executed post haste and have their corpses sent back to Mexico or whatever Latin American or third world country they hail from. And with the economy going bad right now, I have no doubt in my mind that a growing number of Californians would vote yes on such a proposition.

Pay back would be a b*tch, but at this point, gays and lesbians need to play dirty. We’ve done all we can to be rational, reasonable, non-violent. We’ve built bridges with so many groups and people, who have little to no interest in building bridges. We need to continue our backlash, we need people to respect us and fear us. Being all nice, courteous and civil have gotten us nowhere.

Who knows, our newly elected President and his wife, Michelle, may also find themselves not legally married. After 60 years of marriage my DAD (who is Irish) and my MOM (who is Italian) may also find that they are not legally husband and wife. What kind of S??T is next??? A governmental biological check in addition to a marriage license??

I am a 56 year old gay male who has a partner of 30 years. Personally, I would never marry my partner for income tax purposes, but that does not mean I should not have the right to marry him if I should ask him. You know the old saying, the more you make, the more you pay to the IRS and the US Treasury for bloated bigots in the Congress, White House and the Supreme Court.

As far as I am concerned, no Democrat nor Republican or any other party has done a damned thing about equality. The few that have tried have not tried hard enough. Yes, we are considered a minority but we probably control at least 10% of the voting public.
How many other minorities can claim that percent other than straight black people????

Give it a rest. I belive in a God and worship frequently. I am not a freak of nature. I was not born gay, I was chosen to be gay (THANKS BE TO GOD)!!

The Mormon church commit to the issues is very similar to the Pharisees and Sadducess coming together to accuse Jesus. I believe Mormon Church is trying to position themselves with the Conservative Evangelist Groups to show they have common interest. It is the only way Mitt Romney will ever be the Republican nominee. Smart move.

In my book Sick N Tired of Waiting On Pharaoh I talk about “Moving From White Sheets To White Collars”. The Black church has bought it hook line and sinker…”You’ve hoodwinked, You’ve been bamboozled.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I’m sure in their mix of bs. that marriage is so sacred that if divorce happens, THE WOMAN should be stoned to death.

Should our valiant legal challenges fail, I believe any follow up amendment to reinstate our legal right to marry should also include language limiting the amendment process so that no minority’s civil rights can be voted out of existence by the majority.

It’s imperative to the very essence of our American Society that the California Supreme Court reject the implementation of the Pandora’s Box that is Proposition 8 in the strongest language possible.