but what if god doesn't exist? i know a person like you cannot even relate to the question but what if he doesn't? then you have subjected an entire class of citizen to a different, less free sub-set of rules.

government should rule as though god might exist. you should have the right to belive he does. i should have the right to believe otherwise.

also, you mention that gays still enjoy most rights. is most good enough? and there is a flip side of that coin: if gay marriage were allowed, you would still enjoy all of your rights, including the right to marry and the right to believe that gays are all going to burn in hell.

legalizing gay marriage does not take away a single right you currently enjoy. and yet you have no problem deciding which freedoms others should be allowed to enjoy themselves.

i don't condone the intimidation tactics of those who opposed prop 8, but you're in the wrong. i don't hate you for your beliefs, though, because in time you will lose. there has never been a civil rights movement in this country which ultimately didn't come to fruition. freedom will win out, and the anti-gay marriage crowd will be condemned to the trash heap of history along with the segregationists.

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I believe that the majority will continue to believe that homosexuals should not be afforded the union called marriage.  Marriage is a religious sacrament and should be kept that way.  They are granted domestic unions which is the same thing except the name is different.  I am tired of having their views impressed on me and my children.  I teach my children that gays are wrong and should not be allowed to marry.  I am Catholic and I teach my children our Christen views.  We need to revert back to traditional conservative views and maybe then we will stop this express train we are on to hell.  

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Why does every prop 8 supporter state "i love all people" or "I have many gay friends, my best friends are gay"  I do not love everybody. Nor do I have any gay friends. The few gay people (men) I do not tend to annoy me and make me feel icky if I hang out with them. I am a homophobe. Evolution tells me to ba a homophobe.   However..... I voted no on prop 8 because it was wrong. It was wrong for all the reasons that have been mentioned before. I need to dwell into them now, for we have beat this dead horse to a pulp.

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I disagree with your view that “Homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle alternative”.  While the Bible says that homosexuality is wrong, I would like to suggest that the Bible’s prohibition on sex between men (homosexual activity) does not apply to men today when the sexual activity causes no harm.  Also, the prohibition does not apply to men today because it applied only to the ancient Israelite and Greek-Roman cultures of Bible times.  Reasons supporting these conclusions are given on www.gaysandslaves.com.

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It is an extraordinary statement that anyone from an organized religion would dictate the morality of any class of people.  After the inquisition, crusades, running through the countryside with pitchforks hunting witches and burning innocent women, the butchering of entire great and elegant civilzations in the Americas all in the name of religion, silence during the holocaust, rampant chauvinism, epic pedophilia (the list goes on endlessly, really) you still label someone else immoral?  Yours is a tale without memory, conscience or responsible thought.  In terms of tradition, it was traditional not to be allowed in this country to vote if you did not own land, were a slave or female.  To hang your hat on 'tradition' and superstition  as all you can offer to the discussion places you squarely back in the middle ages.  Indeed, the world must be a looming, intransigent and frightening place for you.

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I love the way the commentators who preceded me make this all about God.

Let us look at this from the perspective of Charles Darwin. Darwin believed that species evolved in such a manner that reproduction plays a major part in their survival. Now homosexuals cannot, by definition, reproduce one another. In the Darwinian system of survival of the fittest and according to his theory of evolution, two men cannot reproduce and two women cannot reproduce. Homosexuals are therefore doomed to a single generation - after which they become extinct. End of story. If you believe in Darwin you cannot believe homosexuals are born gay or there is a dominant gay gene. Evolution has told us so.

So how do homosexuals reproduce? Two ways. They become hetero-sexual or they recruit new members to their flock. Get it?

The homosexual agenda is to gain social acceptance for their behavior and then use our schools to recruit members. That is the experience in Massachusetts.

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