Prop 8.

I'm sure most of you have heard. Or seen, from the looks of Rocklin.
Prop 8 is a hot issue. It is also very sensitive, and definitely controversial. On it balances the decision about whether or not gay couples will keep their right to marry.
When gay marriage became legal in California, I saw the looks on newly-married couples' faces: and in their eyes, I could see true happiness. Many of these couples had been together for 30 plus years, never being able to hold a marriage certificate until this time. They were thrilled that they were being equalized, that society wasn't looking down on them for wanting the happiness that so many others have.
I have several friends who got married on that day, and I wouldn't dream of taking away their elatedness.
Get this: there are actually people who, in the name of morality, would.
One human being would snatch the happiness from another. Legally.
A ballot SHOULD NEVER have the power to take away anyone's civil rights (especially in the US, where EVERYONE is said to be equal, regardless of color, creed or sexual preference). This would be the first time in American history that a civil right already granted to the people would be taken away.
Why many people, in the sake of their "tolerant" and "loving" religion or beliefs, would knowingly take a whole group of people's happiness away is beyond me.
They have no business determining other people's lives.
No one is telling them who they can marry, and it in NO way effects them or their marriages.
If these "yes" people stand for love, which is what their God (that some of them say they represent) is said to be, then they should rejoice in the love between all people. Especially the unconditional love that characterizes marriage.
These peoples' genders make their love worth less?
Another thing: that children might learn that gay people exist in public school?
California law already prohibits teaching any child health issues without parental consent. This is considered an issue under that category, just like sex ed.
If the parents don't want their children to know that gay people can marry, legally, they can opt their child out of it.
Personally, I would advocate teaching all children tolerance.
And if I remember right, this same thing happened with interracial marriages. Are those marriages also not fit to tell about to children?
So why are they voting yes? They don't believe homosexuality should exist, so they're working on banning the option of learning about these marriages?
I cannot understand the intolerance and hatred of these people. They sit there and tell me that it is degrading to the title of marriage, that it "destroys" the traditional man/woman view.
However, am I not correct that both are based on love and a lifetime commitment, and that the only issue here is type of genitalia?
People who visit Rocklin, coming home from college, are shocked at the sheer number of "yes" signs.
"It takes everything to keep myself from ripping down those signs," says Elizabeth Sheets.
"But if I did, it wouldn't be very peaceful."
She won't lower herself to their level of intolerance.