Vote No on Proposition Eight, Vote No on Hate
by A valid discussion of why gay people want the right to be married. There is a legal reason. Gay unions do not have the same legal rights. Vote no on Hate. Vote no on 8. No on H8.
Gay Marriage Seems to be a really big deal in California right now with Proposition 8 being such a high profile proposition. I live near Palm Springs, CA so our news is full of reports about neighbors stealing the signs from those with whom they disagree. I want to clear this up once and for all.
The reason that gay guys and lesbians want marriage rights is because gay unions do not allow loving gay couples to visit each other in the hospital. How would you like it if your brother or father or mother were in the hospital and you were not allowed to visit them. You would most likely be upset about that wouldn’t you? So why are you wanting that to happen to gay people? To coin an old saying “Do gay people not bleed when you prick them with a needle?” Do they not have feelings? Are they just like you with subtle differences? OK, some of you might call them big differences but the point is they tie their shoes just like you do and when they write a letter to someone they write the same way youdo. They might not say the same thing but … You get what I’m talking about here. So, why would you deny them the right to visit their loved one in the hospital?
The second thing that is a really big deal to gay people is that when one dies the other one does not have the same legal rights as married people. A married person who dies leaves their belongings, keepsakes, and cherished picture memories to their significant other. Not with gay people. When the partner dies, the relatives swoop and steal all of the belongings that mean so much to their partner. Is this right? No! Is this the way the law is set up? Yes!
So, do you now understand why gay people want the term marriage to apply to them?
OK! If you want to be the total Christian that Jesus meant you to be, either let the gays have marriage rights, do not pass prejudiced laws that deprive them of the very things that you would die to preserve in your own life. If that does not sit well with you then it is up to you to help create laws which deal with these problems. Petition your state senator and congressman to change the Gay Union Laws to include hospital visits and rights to claim the assets of their partner! After all, it’s only fair and you would expect the same if you were gay. You already expect it as a straight person.
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Post Commentredneck
On November 11, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I voted yes so ha ha
Friend.
On December 1, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Sadly I do not live in Cali, nor am I 18, so I couldn’t vote but I think Prop (H)8 is a load of horse manure. They want to get married, fine, let them. This country was founded on the ideals of Equality for ALL. Is there somewhere in the Constitution that says Everyone can get married excpt Homosexuals????? how small is that fine print anywho?
Oh and just a little side note. The Greeks and Romans where the biggest homosexuals you could ever meet. I’m just saying.
A friend~
Ricardo
On December 9, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I don’t live in CA so had no vote. I think gay people should be allowed to be married by law if the law is in the business of recognizing heterosexual marriages — and it is.
I think you do your cause a disservice though when you misrepresent the facts. You make it sound as though the law in California is that a gay person cannot leave their belongings to their partner. That is not true, if they have a will that clearly leaves everything to their partner (and if thought through excludes these blood relatives who the decedent is worried about) the will will be upheld just the same as if the decedent left everything to a buddy, a charity, a child, anyone.
Hospital visitation is a more narrow problem which depends on hospital policy and if the patient is awake or has a living will. Think critically, I’ve never been married and when I was in the hospital I know I had visitors, hm?
In sum I think you do a disservice by mistating things, or in the case of the hospital issue trying to portray the problem as more broad than it is. Just say that in the narrow circumstance that a person is unconscious and their relatives (or whoever they granted a poa) are cruel enough to exclude someone they love from seeing them a gay person has to suffer a fate that a married person would not. That should be enough and if you’re honest I think you get further with people — meanwhile gay people should be aware of these problems and create wills, durable powers of attorney’s while simultaneously addressing the larger problem. Good luck in CA.
Nikki.
On January 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Wow Redneck, you’re an imbecile.