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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Okay, let's stop fucking around: You think marriage is the exclusive realm of a man being bound to a woman and vice versa. Fine. But this is where the problem is. People disagree with you and now the constitutionality of Prop 8 is being challenged on the basis that homosexual couples aren't given equal treatment. Bottom line: they can't marry the person they love just like heterosexual couples can. That's not equal treatment.
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First, who says it is not equal treatment and why? The US Supreme Court has yet to decide until then it is not in violation of the constitution. No matter how much you may disagree.
A vast majority of religions, (and some people are very fanatical about their religion), state it is wrong for same sex marriages. You can yell separation of Church and State... but churches/synagogues/mosques/temples will strongly suggest to their masses how to vote on certain issues. (Just as some organizations such as the NAACP, Unions, etc. will do the same.)
So, YOUR opinion that it is a "right" is opposite of say a Catholic who believes it is not a "right".
Until, the court rules.... in California, by popular vote... it is not a right protected by the State Constitution or the US and the California Supreme Court upheld the people's vote. Will the US Supreme Court? No one yet knows.... but in case the uphold that vote, I'd be out there educating the voters and hope for that 4% swing.