Is it the end of marriage?

[crboltz]

It's been a while since I've gone on one of my Prop 8. rant, while, there have been a handful of things that have prompted me to get off my butt and rant away.

Comments

[kclightman]

They're doing a similar thing here. Signs are now up for the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, and they say "YES!" on prop 102, Yesformarriage.com . It makes me batty that they're working so hard to put it in affimative terms when it's really a negative, discriminatory ban.

How do these people sleep at night?

[jeffb3071]

They sleep in the comfort of their own self-righteousness.

[the_celestia]

The only problem I have with that is that for someone like me, who does not believe in organized religion (church), then your proposal takes away marriage for me, and hands me some supposedly equal legal construct.

I don't see how that is any different than the situation you've been living with - your way gives marriage, a legal right I've had all my life so far, to the church (which in essence takes it away from me, who has no church...unless you now want me to pretend to believe in something I don't believe in).

Don't get me wrong - I support marriage for any two adults of legal age (duh. I was at your wedding!)....but I can't support doing so by making marriage a rite of orgainzed religion instead of a legal right.

[jimkeller]

I'd still throw you a wedding to coincide with the signing of the domestic partnership agreement, but I've always been a bit of an iconoclast that way. :)

[crboltz]

I do understand your objection to my proposal. In an ideal world, people would be smart enough to separate legal marriage and religious marriage, and if we could I think most of the anti-same-sex-marriage-equality folks would then shut up, and take their Prop 8 and shove it....where it belongs.

[stacymckenna]

I'm confused by this argument/objection. If we renamed the legal, non-religious form to "domestic partnership" (or whatever), what exactly would we be taking away from those who are not married in a religious fashion? I know countless number of people who now have elaborate weddings and parties and ceremonies without religious involvement in their marriages. If we simply labeled it differently to signify whether or not there was religion involved, what would we be depriving you of?

[argentla]

For the record, Brad Pitt just contributed $100,000 to the No-on-8 campaign.

[jimkeller]

Yay, Brad! Now I want to sleep with you even more! :p

[the_celestia]

Does Chris know this?
:P

[crboltz]

I do now............. what's more important is wondering if Brad has gotten the restraining order yet.