Comments on: Win some, lose some

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:22:28 +0000

I’m right there with you on #2. I can’t believe all those that voted for it couldn’t see past just the whole “gay marriage” aspect of it. It’s about so much more than that.

Who cares of two men or two women want to get married or have a domestic partnership? Is it physically hurting anyone? No.

What saddens me is the hetero couples who needed this for domestic partnerships are equally hurt in this as well.

People in Florida and California and any other state that his this need to take a step back and really look at everything that these amendments encompass.

By: ETK

ETK — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:22:34 +0000

Very very well said. I know I’m caught up in the hope I have for change. In Obama. In the strides that the US made in finally, FINALLY electing an African American president. Yet, I’m also so sad and disheartened at the passing of these propositions. So sad, just so so sad, that I can’t really bring myself to talk about it just yet. Can’t wrap my mind around how extremely disappointed I am in these people.

So, I leave it to people who are so eloquent with words – like you, MKD, and others I read on a regular basis.

Thanks for putting it out there.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:03:02 +0000

By: docjohnboy

docjohnboy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:22:01 +0000

Thank you for posting this, and for your support.

By: duane

duane — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:15:21 +0000

Very well written and very well said. I am proud to have compassionate straight allies as best friends!!!

By: dpb

dpb — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:50:19 +0000

I agree my position of getting the government out of the marriage business is extreme or not feasible based off the way things currently are. I’m not that naive. I’m just of the mindset if something is broken, the way marriage laws obviously are now, let’s fix them the right way rather than entangle them in even more nonsense.

I guess it all depends on how the law is phrased… when it was on the ballot here it asking if the constitution should be amended (why do I consistently want to put to ‘m’s in amend?) to define marriage as being between a man and woman. I voted no.