How Getting Married Made Me An Activist

Popular vote for Barack Obama: 52.7%
Popular vote against Obama: 46.0%
The media calls this win a landslide.

Yes On Prop 8: 52.2% of the votes
No On Prop 8: 47.8% of the votes
The media calls this win a "narrow margin."

What a ridiculous double standard. These are both solid wins. You don't see McCain's supporters taking to the streets or boycotting business owners who supported Obama's campaign.

Very interesting indeed.

Thank you for your article and your opinions Mr. Jefferson, setting aside the Mormon Church and the black voters. Prop 8 is about a pursuit of happines by being in a committed relationship, where most hetersexuals think gay/lesbians are simply promiscous and one night stand people. If, our society really cares so deeply about permanence and sanctuity of marriage, why not redirect our focus to eliminating infidelities and divorce rate. Chance of a happy marriage is only 50% today (pretty scary) and yet even though the numbers are so low, gay/lesbian still want to have a chance at being married, why deny it to them. And please, do not quote me the Bible, we are all sinners, who are we to judge, and who are we to stop other human being from just simply being with the love of their life for the rest of of their time in this one world we have. On the other hand, prop 8 will be resolved by Supreme Court, I believe just compare the numbers year 2000, 60% voted for it, 2008, 52% it will happen and it will happen before our own eyes. And is 52%really a majority ???
BTW, I am a caucasian woman from CA, married for 23 years and misreable for 13 years.

Wonderful article, David. Just one thing, though. As a gay resident of Salt Lake City, I find it horrifying that some activists are suggesting boycotting our ski resorts and businesses. While I am livid a the role the LDS Church played in forcing through Prop. 8, please recognize that Salt Lake City has a large and vibrant GLBT population. We have a police force that has works very hard to reach out to and work with the gay community. Our ski resorts (both in Salt Lake and in Park City) are staffed by many gay and lesbian employees. I could go on and on. If you wish to boycott Mormon organizations, fine, but make sure you know what you're boycotting.

Bottom line: Sodomy is a sin and no matter how many people say other wise it will always be a sin. No matter how many people decide cocaine use is okay I don't think it should be legalized or celebrated. I have family members with drug problems and I know they're good people, but just because they're good people I don't have to accept their habits and self indulgies in a manner that will expose my children.

I'm glad I'm not gay. Hopefully none of my kids will be either. If they are, however, they need to suck it up and realize the majority of people aren't like that and don't want to hear about it. The majority of people don't care about these protests. Just be gay and move on.

sorry but yes you can take away their so called civil rights,IT JUST HAPPENED? DEAL WITH IT! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Why do gays like to play the victim so much? They act as if they are forced to attend separate schools or drink from separate drinking fountains. The people decided that marriage is between a man and a woman and the gay rights activists act as if they are second class citizens. Wake up! Turn on the television, and you will see that our culture celebrates gays and accepts their lifestyle just fine. Last I checked, a gay man or a lesbian has the exact same legal rights as me, has just as good a chance of being hired to a job as me, and can live wherever he or she wants, just like me. What the author fails to understand is that homosexuality has and always will be a small, yet vocal minority. Why then should the majority of our society be FORCED to accept their lifestyle as good, especially when a majority of its citizens concur through a democratic process that marriage is between a man and a woman? That right there is a blatant violation of my civil right to believe what I want to believe without being labeled a bigot or intolerant.
Oh and one more thing, the law doesn't discriminate because the law equally restricts all citizens from marrying a person of the same gender. So in other words, I, a heterosexual male, can no more marry a man than can a homosexual male. So much for inequality and discrimination.

Oh minds, how selfcentered you propose your ideals and force other to swallow your ways. No No No, you are the ones who wish to change everything for everybody. You call NO, hate, you call your way, civil right, you call everyone else who speak up alternatives, begots, you call arguments, intolerance. Well people have spoken...... NO. We don't want .... Keep your ways to yourself and not to others who disagree with you.




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As usual the Democrat party has it wrong. They were against civil rights for blacks in the 60's but today they are pushing for acceptance and civil rights for a depraved sexual perversion called homosexuality.

VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT IS GAY

DON'T BE G A Y.

The very definition of marriage is a union between a man and a woman. That's a non-religious definition. The bottom line is that gay's confuse a sexual fetish with 'love'. Humans were created to reproduce. How would life evolve if everyone was gay? The male private part was not created to enter another males rear end. Do you know what happens? Google PINK SOCK, no need to turn your filter off. I would like to do things that are not allowed by the law, should there just be no laws so that everyone can be happy to do as they wish? It's all a sexual fetish, like bondage, bukkake, trannies, etc. No one is born gay. You were either rebelling, were put in a situation early on that was your first sexual experience or thought and triggered your choice of becoming gay. No matter what the case is, is about the sex and atmoshpere that keeps one to stay gay. The gay community is growing stronger and stronger, so it's fairly open now to express your sexuality, and generation after generation society is becoming more used to gay's. And laws are changing and probably will change in a couple more generations leaning towards legalizing gay marriage across the entire US. Other cultures around the world fortunatly recognizes what real marriage is. America is sadly becoming a country of self indulgeance. As long as everyone is happy everything is ok. Gay marriage is becoming legal faster then marijuana is! How is that possible? Marijuana is natural isn't it? It makes me happy....and it should be my right to be happy and feel good, right? It's not ok to not like a person because they are gay...that is discrimination. Hating someone because they are black, asian or hispanic or gay is discrimination. It's not discrimination when the law says gay's cannot marry. Please understand that being gay is a lifestyle of sexual fetish. I leave you with two words I said previosly.....PINK SOCK.

YOU SURE THE TEARS AND BIT LIP WASN'T BECAUSE YOU RECTUM WAS SORE?