Usually, state Constitutional amendments are enacted to expand civil rights. Unfortunately, after some confusion, it looks like California voters have gone the opposite route and written discrimination directly into the California constitution by banning gay marriage. The legal status of thousands of married couples is now threatened.
Allowing gays to marry harms no one. NO ONE. They deserve the same rights that heterosexuals have to marry the person they love. Of course the charge to deny them their rights was lead by those with a “monopoly on morality,” the religious. Rather than lead to the future, California has set civil rights back years.
And as if that weren’t bad enough, Arkansas now prohibits same-sex couples from adopting. The people of Arkansas would rather that a child remain an orphan than have two loving parents of the same sex. It’s such a crime to be gay, Arkansas voters would rather a child live out a life unloved and unwanted than give gays the chance to save him from a life of despair.
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Yes, this is the one thing that mars an otherwise awesome day. I can't believe that Prop 8 passed in CA! Very, very sad.
On a brighter note, both the medical marijuana and stem-cell research props passed in Michigan, so there's that.
Yeah, definitely a mixed bag. The thing about stem-cell research, though, is that Obama will probably lift the federal ban as soon as he can. So I'm not sure what kind of impact the Michigan proposition would have had.
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