This past week has been an eventful week for state and our country. Novemeber 4th the polls opended and by the end of the day, with an electoral map covered in red and blue (mostly blue) we were announced our presidential elect for 2008. Barack Obama was elected into office with a 6.5 lead over his running opponent John McCain, becoming our FIRST black president, a day that will go down in our nations history.
Our president elect had made history, but it wasn't the only pressing matter that people were voting with baited breath for (or against) California residents had their fair share of life changing propositions on the ballot this election season.
For instance, Proposition 8 is a State ballot proposition that would amen the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to it's original definition as "between a man and a women"
There are very strong arguments for both sides of this, equality for all being the major theme on the side of same sex marriage. TV airs commercials speaking of how our nation has come so far from where we started, when speaking of open mindedness and tolerance. They show clips of news paper articles that forbid interracial couples the right to get married, but then they even go so far as to compare voting yes on prop 8 to putting Japanese in confinement camps during the second World War.
That is ridiculous.
My parents are extremely conservative republicans but even they agree with me that same-sex couples should be allowed equal rights, taxes and tax benefits, as a couple. The argument against those who want to keep marriage between one man and one women is completely unfair, exactly what those who voted yes on pro 8 were accused themselves of being.
Same-sex marriage offends me. Not because a man and man, or a women and a women offend me, and not because I think sexual orientation is a choice, and that they chose wrong, but because for me, and millions of americans like me, religion plays a huge part of my fixed opinions.
I believe that marriage is a bond between a man, and women and God, with the purpose of procreation and the benefit of the way in which we ARE to go about procreating. I don't think sex is centered around procreation but I do believe that marriage was established as a bond between man women and God in order to create the healthiest universe possible.
On Novemeber 4th we voted Yes on pro 8, putting marriage back into its original terms, between one man and one women.
Marriage rarely will be what it was meant to be. A union between a man, a women and God. But the least we can do, I feel, is keep it in its original design.
In Arkansas they decided that Gay and Lesbian couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt children either, THATS AWFUL.
A loving family is better then the system any day, and anyone who can't see that is incredibly close minded. Thankfully here in California we allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
This all leads up to a question that I will leave for you to decide.
Should we be lead now by politics or religion.
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, but have we forgotten what governed us in the beginning?
4 comments:
good job on including a lot of facts but still including your opinion.
My english sucks...i didnt get if you are against same sex marriages or not?...I enjoy reading ur texts tho i cant get everything!!
well I thought that was excellent kandyce. Well written, nicely laid out, facts, your opinion at the end and leaving us readers with a controversial question. great work.
Even though you brought out good topics supporting proposition 8, I disagree. I am a straight christian, but I also believe this country was founded on religious freedom. We can't let our religion interfere with the rights of others. Gay couples can love each other more than a straight couple who could be married and hate one another. America should at least acknowledge that they have equal rights.
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