Just out: Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled 
California’s passed initiative Prop 8 violates the Constitution’s equal protection and due process rights clauses.
From his decision: ” the fact that Prop 8 passed as a voter initiative was irrelevant as ‘fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.’”
What a just victory. But the game is not over yet. The defense will appeal and wants to take it all the way to the Supreme Court. I don’t get why opponents to same sex marriage just don’t get it–it is discrimination, plain and simple. Many countries do get it, like Argentina….
..Canada. Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and South Africa.
I continue to be baffled by why opponents are so against two people of the same sex getting married. Why do they care what people’s sexual preference is in the first place–why is it any of their business? It is clear that sexual preference does not have anything to do with good or bad parenting–research supports this, and plenty of hetero’s are bad parents.
Beyond this, kids aren’t even the issue, because we are already past the idea that marriage is about having kids. People don’t get married to have kids these days. As the CF know, a growing number of couples don’t have children at all. People marry for love. So why should one group of people who love each other and have a certain sexual preference be the only ones who are allowed to get married?
Religion comes into play, but that argument fails too. The separation of church and state makes it such that we have no right to force our religion onto others through laws. But that is exactly what opponents to same-sex marriage are trying to do.
But off to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and to the Supreme Court go…we may be ahead of other countries on many things, but definitely not on this issue.
What do you think–what is the biggest reason why so many people are against same sex marriage?
