"Adam" who is a law student at UCLA, allegedly: "The change of the legal
definition of marriage could narrow personal liberties—and some of them are even
lost!" Somehow he thinks photographers will be forced to photograph gay weddings
and that doctors will be forced to do artificial insemination of lesbians.
That's weird, because in America private business owners have the right to turn
down any work they want, Adam, which probably they taught you in your first year
at law school?
"Alissa": "It's really about gaining control, forcing all of
us to give up the very foundation of speech and religious freedoms on which this
country was founded." This is so fundamentally retarded that it's unclear what
she's saying. Gay marriage impedes freedom of speech? Neither does it impinge on
religious freedom. Your church is completely free not to marry gay people—just
as it's completely free to not ordain women priests!
I used to think it was OK to give on gay marriage, that it wasn't worth making people uncomfortable. I'm over that. My family has just as much right to exist as any other, with the same benefits -- and responsibilities. The funny/sad thing is that many people I know and love don't even realize how precarious our existence is -- that just a handful of states even allow people like me to adopt kids, and that a number of states still deny people like me the right to be with our family in hospitals, etc. We know people who
Come on Californians -- do the right thing!
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Woo, tell 'em!
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