Comments on: Calif. legislature on way to condemning Prop 8

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:04:39 +0000

My response to the Prop 8 group is that I introduce my wife as “my Partner” now, even though we are married for over 41 years.

I will not be “married” in everyday talk, until gay people can also be married.

I am thrilled that my daughters wedding back in 1998 was purely a civil wedding. And interesting how it was on the 30 year anniversary of when laws against inter-racial marriage were repealed nationally. Her husbnd, by the way, is not white.

By: Richard Bosler

Richard Bosler — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:43:36 +0000

I also completely agree with the comments made by Scott!!!

By: Dave W.

Dave W. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:26:22 +0000

You guys are correct…it is religion. Without religion this initiative would have had no funding, no grass roots, no organization and no mobilization of unrational fear to get it to pass.

Tony Perkins just visited Maine and the things he said were simply laughable by anyone using their brain. Any thinking person knows my marriage doesn’t affect my neighbors marriage.

He said things like we have to stop the demorilization of society, as if by stopping marriage equality, we are all going to live by his warped moral code! He said this is the last front, if we lost this the fight for AMERICA is over! Only dumbed down useless brains would believe that religious conservatism is saving, not ruining, this country.

300+ million uneducated stupid people are ruining this country and taliban style religion is aiding that dumbing down.

55% of Americans don’t even believe in evolution! They believe in fairy tales over a significantly tested theory. They are too dumb to realize what the word theory means in scientific context and they actually think their imaginary friend is coming back to save them from death (unless they have gay sex of course).

If we end religion most of our country’s problems will go away. That is the central fight. Homo Sapien is just too intellectually advanced to let religion destroy our race.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:40:27 +0000

“religion is the opiate of the masses”

lets get the war on drugs started up right this time

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:29:06 +0000

Thank you Scott for saying exactly what I feel too.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:10:42 +0000

Everett, Only the Court could have invalidated the initiative measure before November. They were asked to do so, but declined.
The FULL legislature has twice passed a law authorizing EQUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTs, the Governor refused to sign them.
I actually think it is better this way because that was before the court said last May that it is truly a Civil Right under Article 1 Section 1. …
And I think the court will decide the same way again.

By: TJNV

TJNV — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:50:39 +0000

Let all hope that the Ca Supreme Court does the fair thing. I was sickened by the adds run by Yes on H8. They lied and played on peoples fears of what might be taught to kids. Then enough ignorant people were willing to believe the lies rather than actually read a newspaper. The adds ran by No on 8 were all to polite and rational and also too safe not showing the actual people that this hateful law hurts.
What makes me maddest of all is that these people hire Ken Star to invalidate peoples marriages, My Marriage. When do we get to vote on Ken Star’s marriage.

Tom in Long Beach

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:28:29 +0000

I am just SO sick of all of this. I have completely lost faith in the people of this “great” nation. Religious freedom…unless your religion is different than mine. Seperation of church and state…unless it’s the christian church. This piece of bigot trash known as prop 8 was not the will of THE people. It was the will of a slim majority of people. The will of the ignorant and fundamentalist christian. Where is the government? Where is the protection of the minority from the whims of the majority? WE let them write prejudice into our constitution!!! I am utterly disgusted. Humanity is a vile creation when the weak-minded are poisoned by religious zealots, and there are so many weak-minded among us. I can’t express my grief at all of this. I am truly ashamed of this state’s and this nation’s stance on freedom.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:32:16 +0000

this was a good summary of the legal arguments but doesn’t describe the split within the community, where some want to put up another marriage initiative to repeal prop 8, while others are waiting for the court decision. still others point out that it’s too soon & we’ve lots of organizing & outreaching to do before winning a proposition. we’ve quite a problem with badly-educated people who live in the interior. prop 8 lost big in all the coastal counties except san diego. lots of church mischief down there.

By: everett

everett — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:31:46 +0000

Hmmm..does anyone know why the CA legislature didn’t actually condemn Prop. 8 BEFORE the Nov 2008 election??? If they could have, that might have swayed some people to think twice before casting a ‘yes’ vote.