I'm still so happy that Obama won, but I'm also deeply disappointed by the fact that Californians passed Proposition 8. A majority in California voted to change the state constitution to specifically exclude same sex couples from the right to marry. The right to marry is something the Supreme Court of the United States has already deemed a basic human right.
It's way past time to finally admit that there's nothing wrong with homosexuality and that gay people should be allowed to marry. We are at the point now where we're merely arguing over semantics. We're like selfish children sitting on our toys. "Fine. You can cobble together all the rights of marriage and create your own civil unions. You just can't call it marriage. That's ours. You can't have it."
It's time for this country to grow up and create laws based on reason instead of irrational fear. Prop 8 sets California backward. Way backward. That it passed is just wrong.
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I completely agree. Marriage is the union of two people in love. Not one of one gender and one of the other. Two PEOPLE.
One problem, for example, is that the insurance industry doesn't want to give money intended for a *spouse* to someone who they're not *married* to, so they're pushing for "same gender" to be unequal to "marriage". Perhaps I'm wrong, but everything else in this country is ruled by the almighty dollar, and I can't see how this is different.
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