A Gay Marriage Surge

I voted yes on Prop 8. My son who is gay told me not to vote No. He told me that it would cause backlash and more predjudice in people. He feels domestic partnership is just as good. He feels that Gays should not want to interfere in a basis of what our Country was formed on. Some Gays are not by choice. I knew my son was gay when he was a baby. I wasn't surprised when I learned he was gay. I loved him even more. But, I didn't want him to think I pitied him either. He is the same as any other man. And vice versa. I am very proud of him. After the way the Gays acted when they lost. Has made others that voted No. Say that if they turn this again. They will be mad and Vote yes. Or how ever they want to trick us on the ballots again. It is a shame.

Here's some pretty compelling evidence that proves homosexuality is natural, i.e., it occurs in nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
By the way, homosexuality is not a disorder. The APA stopped classifying homosexuality as a disorder over three decades ago.

Can someone tell me if being gay has something to do with generic disorder or choice or something else?and please give me some serious enswers from both sides and dont give me that bible enswer from one side and love answer from the other , we all know some relationships are based purely on sex drive and some of us don't belive in bible,
i have a hard time understanding why would nature create male and female and then male would have sex with male like it happens in humans and animals,
please, i want to hear from people with scientific background
thank you

I voted for Prop 8 in California. Not because I hate homosexuals, but because I feel that the domestic partnership laws should be strengthened instead of redefining marriage. What I don't appreciate are the editorials, letters to the editor, protests, and name calling simply because I voted my conscience. Personally, I'm still struggling with this concept. Name calling and protesting the Mormon Church, or anyone else, will not change my mind.

The civil and legal rights you are accorded because you have a legal partner (and just because you're married in a church doesn't mean you are legally married if you don't fill out the civil paperwork) should never have been confused with whatever connection your religious ceremony accords your union. All people who have been married in a church and have filed and had signed the appropriate civil documents have civil unions. If you go to a religious establishment and they perform a 'marriage ceremony' you are married but may not have a civil union. Homosexuals should be permitted to have civil unions and if they attend a religious institution that will permform a marriage ceremony, then they will be married - but it should be the same thing for heterosexuals. My husband and i had a civil ceremony 6 months before the wedding because we were buying a house and it just made it easier, but we considered the church ceremony our wedding and therefore our wedding date - even though our civil certificate stated 6 months earlier. It's separation of church and state folks - homosexuals deserve the same rights as everyone else the same way black people deserved the same rights as everyone else (and don't even start on homosexuality being a choice - you don't don't choose to live your life being abused and looked down on, aside from the scientific evidence, but most close minded people wouldn't take that into account)

Every person has a right to choose a mate as long as the other party is a concerting adult. This religious mambo-jambo has always sought to subjugate e.g slavery, the crusades, colonialism, etc. I say yes to same sex marriage.

What phony baloney! In sex ed class, the teacher will be asked, "What's gay?" or "What's homosexual?" The teacher will reply, "That's when a person has romantic feelings for a person of the same gender." Class will move on. Is the religious right seriously telling us their children are so weak-minded that when they hear that statement their children will immediately become gay and lesbian? We let such parents breed?

President elect Obama wants to make an everlasting impression on american society He will ban Gay marriage all together this country was founded on Christianity and gay is an abomination to GOD actually President Bush should make it against the law before he leaves office this is immoral and disgusting. and sick and anyone who agrees with it is sick also.

SessionsGB, whether gays and lesbians can marry or not doesn't change the maleness/femaless role model issue that you raise as we can still procreate without marriage. You can't legislate that we can't.

Datax, thank you for your comment. Like you, I'm sure, I don't want my church telling me how to vote nor do I want my government telling me how to worship or what my morals should be, as if many of our politicians could do that with a straight (no pun intended) face anyway.

If you want a Christian theocracy, please study up on how they do it in Iran (the Islamic variety) and go find a place to found a new country. This is the United States of America and I believe we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. Please keep your thocracy out of the public square.

themtb2007 is a retard. Are you for real???? Fat schools??? Fat is a choice of eating healthy or eating McDonalds 24/7. Is being gay the same thing??? Hell no. It is a genetic factor that can't be controlled and changed. Why not allow everyone now matter the color, religion, sex, sex orientation, etc, do whatever they want with marriage. If they want to be miserable like straights wind up being after years of martial "bliss"- let them who does it hurt in the end anyway????

Where was this survey held, West LA, San Fransisco, Ashland Oregon?? Comparing the one issue that affects gays to the mountain of issues that affected black Americans truly shows how little gays know about segregation. Blacks lived a horrible existence and it was wrong on every level. Gays can have civil unions, they simply can't call it marriage because it's NOT marriage. Other than that they can do anything they please.