Gay mariage and gay rights
Friday, November 14th, 2008Proposition 8 was a California State ballot proposition that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It overrode a recent California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right. The official ballot title language for Proposition 8 is “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.” The entirety of the text to be added to the constitution was: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
“If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny”, Benjamin R. Tucker
In my opinion, mariage is just something left of old religious habits and we should switch to a more civil union, but why forbid people wanting to get maried?
Why let the government decide what lifestyle is right or wrong ?
Once again we get to a religious problem thanks to people thinking that they are superior therefore have the right to impose their views on other people, here using an oppresive law. People are just not fit to decide on these kind of questions ! I am not concerned by prop 8, but I still don’t see why some people need to push their opinion on others… it won’t chance a thing for them ! But still they try to oppose social progress… and the system let them !
It should be up to each individual to decide what lifestyle they want to follow as long as it doesn’t harm their neightboors… and to me two guys or two girls getting maried won’t kill anyone.
Right now I’m in Florida and I discover that a LOT of people are homophobic. It is really “ok” here, it won’t offend anyone. Why all these ignorant people raised with a religious blindfold should get the right to decide who I can mary ? Leave me alone !
They have no clue of what’s going on in the world, they base their logic on the bible or other ridiculous beliefs… but in the end they still get to decide for other how to rule their life by allowing laws like prop 8 to pass.
Once again, I am not directly concerned, but I wonder what would I do if I was. What would I do if I was denied my rights to live my life as I want ? Well I’m not sure…
I leave you with this video of Keith Olberman :
(found via)
