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What do you think of Proposition 8 (Banning Gay Marriage)?

Proposition 8 (or the California Marriage Protection Act) was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections. The measure added a new provision, Section 7.5 of the Declaration of Rights, to the California Constitution, which provides that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

I don't know all of the details about his but I do know that it's upsetting for something like that would even be considered. What are your thoughts?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    I think it's disturbing that people are allowed to vote on others people's rights. Regardless of what any person thinks of gay marriage, it's just wrong to allow people to vote for or against rights that are being granted to people.

  • 5 years ago

    Prop 8 became a state proposition amending the CA shape, not the U. S. shape. despite the fact that if, they exceeded an analogous regulation here in AZ besides as one in AR that still bans gay adoption. i like the way it particularly is particularly hardship-free in those states to particularly write discrimination into their shape. i don't think of it is going to nullify the already married couples, i've got faith there continues to be some debate on that. The state lawyer ordinary, Jerry Brown, has mentioned those marriages will stay valid, even nevertheless criminal annoying circumstances are attainable.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This is another case of a majority trying to impose its views on a minority. Minority rights are protected by the Bill of RIghts and are deliberately kept from the hands of a simple majority. Right-handers could just as easily dictate that only righties could drive cars -- or vote. Life would be so much simpler -- for them.

    When the Nazis came for the communists,

    I remained silent;

    I was not a communist.

    When they locked up the social democrats,

    I remained silent;

    I was not a social democrat.

    When they came for the trade unionists,

    I did not speak out;

    I was not a trade unionist.

    When they came for the Jews,

    I remained silent;

    I wasn't a Jew.

    When they came for me,

    there was no one left to speak out.

    -- Pastor Martin Niemöller

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Prop 8 Is bullshit.

    The Overturn of prop 8 was the best thing to happen in california in a long time, at least that judge has some common sense.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's effed up that someone would even think of it. If there was a prop 8 for a certain race or gender, it would be shot down in the blink of an eye, but they actually have to sit and think "Oh, should we take these peoples rights away?" "Oh yes Jim, maybe so, maybe so".

    The human race is doomed, I can tell you that much.

  • The government is ****** they need to update the constitution not everybody is an uptight old **** who lives by the jesus book everyday. Being gay is a way of life not a ******* sin, its like trying to make a straight person gay, it aint guna happen so why even try

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It was bullsh*t. It was a religiously funded anti-gay proposition. Talk about needing more separation of church and state.

  • 1 decade ago

    My thoughts are that for a free country, America is very selective about who it gives those freedoms to.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I say just let them get married already. No one has the right to tell you who you can and can't be with as long you are the same species. People need to get over it and let gay people get married already.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Totally theocratic and unconstitutional.

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