Opposite Sex Civil Unions

Proposition 8 has passed in California, taking away the rights for same sex couples to marry. I cannot believe this has happened. It boggles my mind that something so utterly unconstitutional has been allowed on a ballot. And what reasons do they have for not letting gay couples marry?

“Our children will learn that being gay is okay IN SCHOOL!”

Big shock, I learned that in school before they had the right to marry.

“Every child is entitled to a father and a mother.”

I guess you’re going to ban single mothers and fathers. Hold a lottery and require them all to get married to random strangers?

“It’s not right to teach someone so young about homosexuality. Wait until after sex ed.”

Heterosexual marriage is fine to teach children when their babies. We’ll teach that to them till the cows come home.

Also, please keep in mind, “homosexuality” is NOT about sex, it’s about love.



Gender is NOT essential to the family. It’s sexist to believe that a woman cannot do a man’s job and vise versa. You are entitled to that opinion, but you don’t get to make laws that take away someone’s rights. And you will allow Joan to get married, but no other same sex couple? Why just your lesbian neighbor? What makes her so special? I have to meet this woman.



So… by this logic, we need to ban black people from marrying black people and white people from marrying white people.

And where is this evidence? Where is this research that shows the damage done to children raised by same sex couples? Is it all the hatred and harassment the child suffers in school because all the other children make fun of them?



I have plenty of friends that have two gay pets, and even one of the Pandas at the Thai zoo is gay. It occurs “in nature” too.

Another major issue seems to be that homosexuality will be taught in “in every class.” I don’t think there will be many repercussions in the classroom setting except for word problems looking like this:

“John is going to meet Peter for their date at 6:30. It takes John twelve minutes to get ready and six minutes to get to Peter’s house, how early will he be?”

All of these things are based on the “horrible atrocities” that happened to Massachusetts after gay marriage was legalized. And apparently, lightning came down from the sky and burned away the entire population as well:


I’ve been wracking my brain over this whole situation for a while, and I have a solution.

Once again, the Nation has got the cart before the horse.

What is the purpose of Government? To preserve the social contract.

People give up some rights to a government and other authority in order to receive or jointly preserve social order.

There are things that every citizen cannot do on a constant basis along with their lives, so they make someone else responsible for it. Nice and simple. I can't balance the budget on Saturday when there's laundry to be done. I'll leave that to a group of people making a lot more money to decide that for me.

Now lets stop for a moment and think about the first amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

See that bit right there in bold? THE FOUNDING FATHERS did not give the government authority over our religion. They wanted Catholics, Protestants, Quakers, Jews, Agnostics and Atheists to worship in peace and buy and exchange each others' goods freely. They looked to the Netherlands and saw the wealth and equality that all people had there and chose that life for their people. Nothing in Prop 8s arguments give any factual information to support the hazards of gay people being aloud to marry. By amending the constitution of California in this way, the have in effect established religion.

But I can make everyone happy. The government should no longer recognize marriage, period. If people get married, it’s between them and their beliefs, not the state. I propose that from now on, on the books in the halls of government all marriages are civil unions. Marriage is a sacred act separate from government. Much like lunchtime. And if you want to get the government involved, don't make a law respecting an establishment of religion. Just be civil and have a union.

Me and my fiancée Nicole are getting married in October of 2010, but when we get our "marriage license" we will be applying for a civil union. Asking that our government not interfere with our religion, and our religion not to interfere with our government.

I know that this was a Christian country founded by Pilgrims and... wait... That's not entirely true... I suppose it was settled by treasure and glory seekers acting on behalf of Elizabeth I. But our great Founding Fathers Jefferson and Franklin were Deists. They set down the framework for this country through enlightenment and reason. Not through dogma, bigotry and hatred.



Does America really want to take away this girl’s freedom? She has every right to marry a princess if she wants to!

Nov. 4, 2008

The election is over now and it feels surreal. It all happened so fast, I feel like I missed something. It could be because the first election I was politically aware for was Bush V. Gore, (before that I had a vague notion that Perrot had funny ears) and so “an election” has always been a knock down drag out fight between two men and the Electoral College. Even Kerry wasn’t this quick. But I feel like I turned on the TV and suddenly McCain was conceding.

I kept waiting for stories of voter fraud, and disenfranchisement and instead I saw the Electoral College light up blue. I just don’t know what to make of this. It feels like someone had to be sacrificed for this to happen as it did. I voted for him out of fear over McCain and a former love for him in the primaries in hopes to see those speeches that made me cry return.

Anywho, these next ninety days are crucial. Bush is still in charge, and a lot of shit can happen. Be vigilant. Write congress, write Obama. If the Bush administration does so much as look at the lawn funny, get people on it, or kick him in the face yourself.

The best man won, but we need to remember who put him there and that we need to make sure we all do our end of the bargain. We need to help each other as we’ve helped him. Don’t forget how we all came together to get him into office, now lets get together and make this nation what it was meant to be, ensuring freedom, life and liberty to all of its citizens and preventing injustice abroad.

I had an odd moment with my co-worker this evening when Obama’s victory was announced; we suddenly realized that Old Glory is no longer a symbol of hatred and aggression. She turned to me and said, “I’m American.”

Those eight years are over, and elections will never be the same.


“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
-John F. Kennedy

Samuel L. Jackson Says No on 8!