If the majority in the United States want all Mormons summarily executed, then this should be done. That is how your logic works. With enough hysteria and enough hard times, such a vote could come to pass (in any society of the world).

Just check your history books. It can be relatively easy to whip up mass hysteria and hatred against a specific group.

You should also learn from history what the reasons for democracy are. Majority rule is one of the tools of democracy; it is not the be all and end all. If it were, it would not be a system worth having. I suppose you are happy to for the majority to throw out court decisions as they see fit. Did you know that a separation of powers is part and parcel of modern democracy?

Other posters on here are right: you are a bigot and no amount of reason will appeal to you. I will no longer waste my time with you. I will let the law, which is changing, albeit it slowly, deal with you like the criminal you are.

If the “vast majority” of citizens were opposed to same-sex marriage as you say, Proposition 8 would have won easily. Instead, it barely sqeaked by, even with an expensive campaign of lies being waged for it. Finally, it really isn’t true that “the people” want same-sex couples to be denied the right to marry. Gays are part of “the people” too, and most gay people don’t want their right to marry taken away any more than you want your right to practice your faith taken away. You’re revealing something about yourself by accidentally arguing as if gay people weren’t people. That “something” probably also explains why you’re willing to harm your own brother. And it has a name: prejudice.

I have asked you questions before and you refuse to answer them. Why? Because your narrow-minded view of the world is wrong and is based on lies, and you really have no answer. So what do you do…you run from one story to the next simply spreading nonsense. You, as a Mormon, believe in a religion that is in direct contradiction to historical facts about the origins of the peoples of the New World, so why should anyone take you seriously? We shouldn’t. Your morals are based on a book that supports slavery, so why should we consider it to be a morally sound guide to life. Again, we shouldn’t. You admitted to having a brother who is gay and you have not accepted him for who he is. You should be ashamed of yourself for causing this man even more suffering. You claim that gay marriage is on the loosing side of history, and again you are wrong. What is happening in CA is a travesty, but it is only one battle. Every time religious bigots like you (and you are a bigot if you support legalizing discrimination against same-sex couples) have tried in MA and CT to stop marriage equality from happening you have FAILED. Here is a novel idea for you: you say you do not same-sex marriage, well don’t marry someone of the same sex. It is that simple. However, do not prevent me from doing what I want to do.

And I’ll say it again: the only people re-defining marriage are (quite literally) the ones changing constitutions to exclude same-sex marriages, and the ones creating new constructions like “civil unions” and “reciprocal beneficiaries” and “domestic partners”, just because they are bigoted against gay people. Nobody on the same-sex marriage side is claiming marriage should be redefined.

Last, the people of the USA outrank the people of California, and the people of the USA approved the 14th amendment to the US constitution. It’s Equal Protection clause says that things like Prop 8 (And Colorado’s voter-approved Amendment 2 from the 90s) are illegal. Prop 8 is going down, because it’s a violation of US law. It’s just a matter of time. If the haters want to ban same-sex marriage, they will have to do it via the US constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. As we’ve seen, those efforts fail, even with cheerleader in chief Bush trying to push it.