The Water Cooler

ruled unconstitutional? was this to remove the rights of CA residence? just want to be sure know what is going on. ty

Prop 8 was passed in 2008 to combat the legalization of gay marriage in California that had happened a few months before. Today it was ruled unConstitutional in a California Circuit Court by a vote of 2-1.

Agree. Good day for america and civil rights. Hate the governments attempts to legislate morality.

You're trying too hard. Do less.

The will of the people is to sh!t all over civil rights? Good to know.

I believe the government already has a precedent for defining what a marriage is. This was done when they outlawed plural marriage and polygamy. Where was all of the outcry about that? If the government or the people do not have the right to define what a marriage is, then the 9th circuit should go ahead and overturn laws that outlaw other definitions of marriage as well. Marry anything or as many people as you want. Hell, let them marry their cousins now too. Its two consenting adults after all.

It is about equal rights for everyone. The problem with your argument is that no one is allowed to do those things, so no civil rights are violated.

Thats not true, men and women everywhere are allowed to get married, but two cousins are not, even though they are consenting and are not hurting anyone.

All I am saying is that the government and the people have been defining what marriage means for centuries. Its not something that just came up to persecute gays and lesbians. You don't want two cousins to marry because of reproduction, and with religion removed from the argument, thats what marriage is about. Reproduction and the family. Nature intended men and women to reproduce and thats what people are defining a marriage to be to foster a reproductive family. You do not allow cousins to marry because you do not want inbreds running around, just look at lee county.

I understand what you're saying, however, there have been studies that show that families raised with homosexual parents do just fine. Also, there are plenty of heterosexual families that have serious problems. Maybe it's time to reevaluate a centuries old system at some point, no?