Prop 8 in California Passes
Yesterday the organizers against California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 conceded. Even after all the votes are counted, it seems likely that Prop 8 will be signed into law and same-sex marriages will no longer be allowed in California. And now the more than 18,000 couples who were married since gay marriage became legal are facing an uncertain future.
Gay rights activists, while disappointed in the outcome of Proposition 8, stressed how far the movement has come since 2000 and the passage of Prop 22, which originally denied same-sex couples the ability to marry. It was this initiative that the California Supreme Court struck down in May 2008. Prop 22 passed by a very wide margin of 61.4% approval and 38.6% against. Prop 8 is much closer, the most recent numbers being 52% for and 48% against.
Kate Kendall of the National Center for Lesbian Rights said, "This is a disappointing moment for all of us, not just for same-sex couples. I think it's a disappointing moment for the nation as a whole. I do think that as history judges this, there will be a moment in time when there is a recognition that this is a mistake."
Currently married couples are filing law suits to challenge Prop 8. Gay and lesbian couples are no longer allowed to marry in California, but the outcome of those currently married is yet to be decided.
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This is a horrible step backward regarding human rights. My loving, committed marriage to my wife should be valued just as any other couple’s marriage is.
what can I do to help change that?
Everyone that is upset about this proposition passing and wants to do something about it, go here: http://jointheimpact.com They are organizing a national protest on Nov. 15th. Check the site for the location nearest you.
We are outraged that 8 passed. I’m happy that we got married on June 21st…Now, we don’t know if the “8ters” will try to invalidate it. Can you imagine how we feel? I thought California was better than this…Hmmmmmm. If you want to get involved..Go to the No on 8 rallies and have your voice heard!! We have done that and we plan to go to more in the future. We have our right to equality. Peace and love to my gay brothers and sisters…
well first of all i bellive that it was a huge win as we came foward as a nation to ellect the 1st black president in the us but it’s also sad how some of human beings bellive that we do not own the same right as they do! well they should all be reminded that we have hearts, we need to eat, drink,sleep and pay taxes just like every single one of them! i will not sit back and just let it go just like none of you should, now is the time to once again come together as one and fight for the rights we have as human beings and not only as gay, lesbians and bi’s! there are so many wrong things in the world like children being rapped and murdered, women being beat day after day, there are people that are startving and they worry whether or not we should be legally married? i don’t know until when will people stop pointing fingers and judging instead of doing something good whit their lifes! it really get’s to me to some people use the religion excuse because i am catholic and i’m bi but i know god loves me just the way i am just like i love god so people please quit giving us the old relegion excuse it makes no sence and if you were all that religious you would of known that! i’m sorry i got a bit carried away but some people are just trapped in the 50’s or 60’s and that’s verry upsetting to me!
xoxoxo
sophie
I am a straight woman and I am all for same-sex marriage. In fact I am using the subject as my argumentative essay topic for college. This is the question that I put in my Introduction to make people think.
There is a man and a woman that are married and the woman or the man are cheating on each other or the man is abusive and then you have a same-sex couple who are committed to each other, are caring, kind, and considerate of each other, who makes the better couple? Better the man and wife get married than the same-sex couple, right? Give me a break. No, lets deny the same-sex couple and allow the married couple so that the husband can continue to beat the wife and then maybe they can reproduce children that will get to live in an unhealthy environment. Then you have the religious fanatics who judge same-sex marriage while believing with their whole selves that God loves us all and Christians are not supposed to judge, they are supposed to love thy neighbor. Hippocrits!!!!!
To all the same-sex couples out there, I am rooting for you and am proud to say that I fully support you and hope that you soon get the rights you deserve. Below is a piece from my paper:
The best thing about being an American is to know that we have the freedom of choice and to embrace that freedom of choice means that we have to be willing to accept that every American has the right to exercise the freedom of choice. We do not have to like it or agree with it, but if we are going to exercise that right we have to be willing to accept everyone else’s right to exercise it as well. Does anyone have the right to take that freedom of choice away from another person? To denying gay and lesbian couples the right to a legally marry is robbing them of their freedom of choice, their right to choose who they want to commit themselves to for the rest of their lives?
It’s about time those who represent the church stood up and did something congradulations to the fighters and let’s take proposition 8 national to preserve the way God created Marriage