should the government be allowed to force a religion to marry two individuals that they don’t believe should be married. I agree the government should not force them not to. The government should not be involved at all. Unfortunely gay-rights activist chose to bring the government into the picture (by bring it into the court system) and so recoginzed the government athorithy on the issue. When the citzens of the state of California decide that they were not happy with the courts ruling they vote and changed the constitution. Now that the judical ruling does not favor gay rights those same ativists want to reject the governments authority. I vote No on Prop. 8 because I believe that the government should have no say what so ever on who I chose to marry. It can recoginze my civil union to that person but marriage to me is a religious event and not a government one. As long my faith recongizes it it does not matter what the state says. But I have not researched the issue very in depth so once again I would like to know the legal difference between a “civil union” and a “marriage.”
State recognized Marriage is not a right. Civil unions are. And every adult in California can be part of a civil union. In my mind marriage is religious. And the government should not be able to state that a Church must marry two indivuals that their beliefs stated should not be married. On the other side the government should also not be able to tell the church that they can’t marry two people together. Prop. 8 does not stop that. It just changes the legal term attached to it. I admit I don’t know but what are the legal differences between a civil union and a “marraige”?
I have to say that for a imaginary comic strip character, Jen has great lips.