I don't know all the details on it, but basically there was this Proposition 8 that was passed in a recent California election that was designed to make gay marriage illegal in California, just after it became legal a few years ago. And it passed with 52% voter approval.
Now what I don't get it, why can't the people of California make up their fucking minds? One election they decide that it's time to stop this obvious form of discrimination and make it legal for gay couples to wed. Now, they're back to believing that marriage is between a man and a woman and that gays shouldn't be able to marry.
I don't know how someone can look at the issue and declare that any oppression of any individuals rights under any grounds, is acceptable. You don't even need to call it marriage if it's that big of a deal, just let them have civil unions so that they can have the same benefits that married couples do.
What pisses me off the most as a christian myself is that there is nothing in the original biblical texts. NOTHING...that declares anything wrong about being homosexual. What you read in the current mistranslated documents are quotes taken out of context by men who had an agenda hundreds of years ago and they twisted the original Greek & Arabic texts to replace mentioning of "sexual deviants" or "perverts of the flesh" and decided to make an anti-gay agenda out of it.
Forget about the fact that the Bible itself in it's current form is misinterpreted, forget about the fact that there should be a separation of church & state for a reason in the first place. This is discrimination at it's most basic level. And yet people want to shield their eyes and plug their ears to the logic of it all...for what reason?
That's what currently is being debated in the California courts system right now. Gay rights activists are saying that civil unions can only be considered unconstitutional if opponents can prove that allowing gay rights to marry adversely affects heterosexual couples and impedes on their ability to marry and have children. Opponents of gay marriage are now trying to say that the institution of marriage was built solely for the sake of child birth, and thus homosexual couples shouldn't be allowed to marry due to not being able to have children. And of course the old argument of "Babies are happier when raised by heterosexual couples".
Now I realize that it's moronic that yet again this issue is being brought before the courts and being settled through money & lawsuits rather than letting the voters have their way. But since they keep on changing their minds every 2 years anyway it's of my opinion that Californians obviously don't know what the fuck they want anyway.
Now what I don't get it, why can't the people of California make up their fucking minds? One election they decide that it's time to stop this obvious form of discrimination and make it legal for gay couples to wed. Now, they're back to believing that marriage is between a man and a woman and that gays shouldn't be able to marry.
I don't know how someone can look at the issue and declare that any oppression of any individuals rights under any grounds, is acceptable. You don't even need to call it marriage if it's that big of a deal, just let them have civil unions so that they can have the same benefits that married couples do.
What pisses me off the most as a christian myself is that there is nothing in the original biblical texts. NOTHING...that declares anything wrong about being homosexual. What you read in the current mistranslated documents are quotes taken out of context by men who had an agenda hundreds of years ago and they twisted the original Greek & Arabic texts to replace mentioning of "sexual deviants" or "perverts of the flesh" and decided to make an anti-gay agenda out of it.
Forget about the fact that the Bible itself in it's current form is misinterpreted, forget about the fact that there should be a separation of church & state for a reason in the first place. This is discrimination at it's most basic level. And yet people want to shield their eyes and plug their ears to the logic of it all...for what reason?
That's what currently is being debated in the California courts system right now. Gay rights activists are saying that civil unions can only be considered unconstitutional if opponents can prove that allowing gay rights to marry adversely affects heterosexual couples and impedes on their ability to marry and have children. Opponents of gay marriage are now trying to say that the institution of marriage was built solely for the sake of child birth, and thus homosexual couples shouldn't be allowed to marry due to not being able to have children. And of course the old argument of "Babies are happier when raised by heterosexual couples".
Now I realize that it's moronic that yet again this issue is being brought before the courts and being settled through money & lawsuits rather than letting the voters have their way. But since they keep on changing their minds every 2 years anyway it's of my opinion that Californians obviously don't know what the fuck they want anyway.
