Judge Rules California's Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition 8 Unconstitutional: Bloggers React

I disagree. I think the rights part should not come with marriage for ANYONE. If the government wants to give rights for couplehood for whatever reason, that shouldn't be related to marriage or not marriage but instead be equal for all committed couples.

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When two people get married, it is because they love each other.
They want to be together in a bond that makes them one with each other forever.
It is a wonderful thing to have such a bond.
It is special.
It is love.
When a man and a woman get married, no one blinks an eye.
If two men or two women do the same, then many people do not approve.
They claim that it is not right or that it soils the real meaning of marriage.
What is the real meaning of marriage?
The answer to that question is in line one of this article.
It is because they love each other.
Does it matter if the couple is gay or straight?
Should it matter?
No!
After all, why should it.
Gays want their equal rights and among those equal rights is the right to be married.
I agree with wanting equal rights.
We are all people which means we are all the same.
It does not matter if someone is gay, white, black, a man, a woman, tall, short, young, old or whatever.
We all want our equal rights.
That is our right.
However, we need to go beyond equal rights when it comes to gay marriage.
Society needs to understand that any marriage is not about the right to be married.
It is about wanting to be married as a loving couple.
Love is not something that should be decided on by voters.
It is not a court issue either.
It should not be an issue at all.
Marriage is between two people in love.
It is not between two people, the voters, the courts and anyone else who has an opinion.
Gay marriage does not bring down the meaning of marriage.
It makes the true meaning of marriage even better.
That is what love does.
It makes things better.
Society has come a long way in the last fifty years in terms of equality, but we still have a long way to go.
It is a shame that love is something that needs to be fought for.
I am not gay, but I am the same as you as you are to me.
May love conquer all.

George Vreeland Hill

...homosexuality is as normal in animals as it is in people.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718....

Lori, speech pathologist, writer, and business owner, blogs home-family-working-mom drama at In Pursuit of Martha Points. ( http://inpursuitofmarthapoints.com )

even animals know that being gay is not natural have you ever seen a gay rabbit or a gay dog no! even animals are smart enough to figure that out but we havent yet but i really hope that america will wake up and see the truth i miss the days when you are not gay or strait your just people living their lives and trying to be a help to others the good old american way!! and if their are gay people let them be gay but dont condone them by letting them marry and and giving them benefits which by the way is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars!!!!

...that the big argument AGAINST the ruling is how "the will of the voter's was undone."

I live in California and our damned proposition system is ridiculous and costs us obscene amounts of money.

And often, OFTEN, the voters vote and the courts go back and say, "Umm, well, actually you can't do that because it breaks other laws that have precedence over yours."

And the level of hysteria that accompanied all those other overturns (anyone remember the auto insurance price roll-back?) did not reach this fever pitch.

Any law that denies a population a legal right to action - when that population is in the minority - takes very, very careful consideration. The will of the majority cannot be used to oppress a minority.

Lori, speech pathologist, writer, and business owner, blogs home-family-working-mom drama at In Pursuit of Martha Points. ( http://inpursuitofmarthapoints.com )

I'm so proud to be a Californian today! Thank you for the link love.
Stassa Edwards
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But the game is not over yet. The defense will appeal and wants to take it all the way to the Supreme Court. I don't get why opponents to same sex marriage just don't get it--it is discrimination, plain and simple. Many countries do get it, like Argentina, Canada. Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and South Africa. May we finally be on the way to be added to this list. ~Laura Families of TwoLaura
Families of Two
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