California: Ban on Same-sex Marriage?

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

I support gay civil unions, but "marriages" are traditionally a religious union between a man and a woman.

So I'd vote yes on that prop.

What does tradition have to do with it? Specifically - traditionally marriage in this country was between two people of the same race. Gay marriage is the new miscegenation as far as I'm concerned.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

I didn't say they couldn't/shouldn't have tax benefits, etc.

Just sayin'. I keep my pickles on my hamburgers, not my burritoes.

I don't want to harass you too much about it, but it's something I hear a lot. I even heard this in the VP debates. If you're okay with giving gay couples full civil rights, why are you unhappy with calling them marriages? Personally, I don't like having marriages and civil unions separated by sexuality because our country has a problem with separate but equal institutions. I wouldn't have a problem with civil unions being performed by judges and marriages being performed by priests.

There's nowhere I can't reach.