Your view on prop 8?

* You allow gay marriage then you will destroy Americas freedom.

Uhm, prohibition of gay marriage is a direct assault on freedom, in case you hadn’t noticed.

I believe that the whole controversy over Prop 8 was merely a red herring that distracted Californian voters from the real issue – should marriage even be a civil institution?

I believe that the state (and the federal government, for that matter) should not have anything to do with marriage, so neither Yes nor No on Prop 8 was a good choice.

Marriage is both a religious ceremony and a contract that changes all of the involved parties legal status and rights.

One solution I read a while back was to get the government out of the marriage business all together. The government would only deal with the legal and contractional aspects of a couple pairing for life. They would leave the marriage ceremony and its ramifications to churches, Justices of peace, boat captains, or whoever performs them. I’ve met more than a few people who weren’t against gays and lesbians having equal rights including rights as partners but what they objected to was the government sanctioning their marriage.

The problem now is that the religious ceremony in entwined with the legal contract of marriage. If the two were divorced (pun intended) than this problem goes away.

I am a christan and I believe god would want us all 2 have equal rights and be able 2 marry who we want

You allow gay marriage then you will destroy Americas freedom. They will call pastors and church leaders discriminatory and sue them for not marrying them because unlike you they know what the bible says. The bible warns us about people like you, the wolves in sheeps clothing who claim to know the word of G-d. “Depart from me, I never knew you” -Yeshua

My view is that whoever came up with Prop 8 don’t like Gay people,it’s wrong to me,I may not like Gay’s but I do support them. People should marry who they want no matter if it’s same sex or not,by banning that,to me it’s downright wrong.

any consenting adult should have the right to marry another consenting adult…period.

This question will quickly become a religious rant about how the bible says that homosexuality is an abomination…

Most of the people who believe and follow that do not follow the other biblical mandates, so ignore them…

I think people should be able to love and be with whoever. It’s their lives.

Marriage is nothing more than a legal contract…and of course any legal adult should be free to enter into one. It seems it’s the word “marriage” that has people in a dither, since it would be hard to justify not giving the same “legal” rights to gay couples as any other couple would have (ie: insurance coverage, inheritance laws, medical information, etc).

I would think, too…that any church which didn’t want to do gay marriages would be able to stand on their own beliefs, and a couple would simply have to find a church which would allow the union. In other words, say if the Catholic church (or any other denomination) refuses to perform gay marriages, then there should be no ramifications for their refusal. Perhaps all it would take is for THAT to be explicit within the proposal.

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“You allow gay marriage then you will destroy Americas freedom. They will call pastors and church leaders discriminatory and sue them for not marrying them because unlike you they know what the bible says. The bible warns us about people like you, the wolves in sheeps clothing who claim to know the word of G-d. “Depart from me, I never knew you” -Yeshua”

This is utter bullshit. Completely moronic. Destroy americas freedom? The government does not interfere now with a churches right to determine who marries in their church now. Why would that change.

There is a word for someone who wants to deny basic civil rights to one specific group. BIGOT!

I agree with peaple having the same rights. I also think that gay’s should be able to get married. My dad is gay and he and his ltp are in love. I think that after 5 years of a comited relation ship they should be able to get married and have the same rights. I also think that prop. 8 is based on religious facts.And the constitution says in some way shape or form I don’t know the exact terminology for it, that religion and politics are not to be mixed! But that’s all prop. 8 is about. I am a christian and I still think that gay’s have the right to get married and have all the same rights as a straight mariage.