An Editorial from a friend:
YES ON 8
Don’t be fooled – Proposition 8 is not about equality or rights. Why not? Because homosexual couples already can have access to all the rights married couples have. Read it yourself:
“California Family Code: Section 297.5. (a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.”
Proposition 8 is about how we as a society choose to define marriage, and I believe that marriage should be about children. Admittedly, not every heterosexual couple chooses to have children themselves; but if marriage were just about two people loving each other, then why do we prevent siblings and cousins from marrying? I will vote YES on Proposition 8 and prevent same-sex marriage, not to deny anyone of rights (which they already have), but to define marriage in a way that will leave intact the foundational unit of human society.
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