14th amendment
“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Equal protection of the laws, now a married person gets certain benefits, inheritance laws, tax breaks and what not, basically preventing a legal citizen from marrying another willing legal citizen is unconstitutional, as long as tax benefits are given to one lot of people and not another lot.

The US govt was designed to keep out of people’s affairs. So why are they trying to interfere, why is it that the republicans who are supposed to be more anti-federalist are the ones trying to get the federal govt to stick their noses into people’s bedrooms???

Other reasons, this is my favourite. Do you think about your parents having sex? Probably not, unless there is something wrong with you, so why do people concern themselves with gay people having sex????

The religious argument for no gay marriage is just as funny. The whole point is Augustine decided that sex was bad, for some reason, and the christian faith therefore decided to make sure people only had sex for the purpose of having children. As gay couples can never have children through normal sex between one another, therefore they are procreating and this is wrong, apparently. So they cannot marry. I tell the christian churches to ban EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has ever had sex for any other reason other than for producing children from marrying, and see how the world goes about things then. That is fair.

But then the 1st amendment is the separation of church and state, should the state be imposing it’s religion upon the people? No. therefore marriage should be up to the people to decided, as long as it is done willingly.

That was the biggest reason. The other is because love knows no boundaries. Gay marriage doesn’t (or i should say it shouldn’t) bother anyone. Just keep living your own heterosexual lives. If gay marriage were allowed, the country would benefit financially. I cant help but to think of gay marriage like the end of slavery in the 1870′s. People will just have to learn to accept it, and live with it. More and more people are rallying up behind the “pro-gay-marriage” campaign. Pretty soon, despite what religious leaders say, gay marriage could possibly be legalized in the entire country as another amendment to the constituition.

Once you do this you will see just what all of us in the GLBT communities face. Discrimination and hate. To quote the poet/philosopher Kahlil Gibran:
Hate is a powerful weapon, had I been stronger I would not have need of so terrible a weapon!”

Remember the phrase; “All men are created equal”? These laws and constructs that block same sex marriage directly violate this premise.
Bright Blessings
Sharon

i am a strong beliver that same sex couples should be allowed to marry, not just because i myself am a bisexual girl in a relationship with another girl who i am absolutly in love with, but because i am a person. a human. and naturally humans are compassionate and caring. i care about other peopel. i think people are all equal no matter what they look like, what they act like, who they are, how rich they are, or who they choose to fall in love with. everyone is the same, and everyone deserves to be treated the same.

they say that government and religion should not entertwine, and yet, it seems like they are. maybe that is only from my perspective and because i think religion is the cause of all homophobia and discrimination to every one in the LGBTQ comunity. especially the catholic religon. i was raised into a catholic family, and upon hearing their veiws on homosexuality, i chose to no longer be a catholic. if there is going to be a religon that tells you that having sexual relations with people of the same sex is wrong, its a stupid religon. and then when there are people who truly love God going to these chrches and are listening to all the things being said about how “God created adam and eve, not adam and steve”, then they are all being basically brainwashed into automattically thinking that homosexuality is sinful. they are wrong though. it is no more sinful than heterosexuality.
the government seems to have played into this thought of homosexuality being wrong, and are now trying to stop homosexualys from having meaningful, loving relationships.

unfortunatly, we have given the government the power to strip anyone and everyone of their rights. and when they choose to act upon it, all are vounerable. but as our government system also allows us, we have the right to change our government. this is “for the people by the people’, or so they say, because people of the LGBTQ community are people too, and yet they are having their rights taken away from them. i strongly belive that since we, as people, have the rights to change our government, fight against their ideas and rebel, we should. as people did to fight for african american rights, womens rights, and all oter civil rights, we have to do the same for all people in the LGBTQ community. the people who are evolved, intellegent and understanding of the fact how all people are the same no matter what their sexuality, they need to stand up and speak out strongly against the innequalities forced upon same-sex couples.

i hope others see this compelling issue the same way i do, and that thoes people too want to solve it. we can. we have the right to. as people, as americans, we can change things. so instead of acting upon how we are currently going through a financial crisis, realize that the issue of rights for same sex couples to marry are way more important.

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When you are married, the government won’t tax the one who is left living with an inheritance tax that could cost them their home.

When you are married, you are legally recognized as a couple and granted 1,049 benefits, rights, and privileges.

2) The argument used for Prop 8 and other stupid crap like it was, “marriage is only between one man and one woman”. The argument is based on pro-creative ideas, and it was suggested under this argument that gay marriage was a threat to “the positive growth of humanity”. Never mind that they allow infertile couples to marry.

3) The other argument hey run to when their pro-creation fort blows down is the whole, “The Bible says homosexuality is a sin” thing. Aside from the fact that this country was built on the basis of “We the People”, and not “We the straight, white, conservative Christian/Mormon people”, consider the other fact that not everyone believes in the Bible. And since we are all supposed to be MATURE adults, I should think it would be nice if we all RESPECTED each others rights to have our OWN PERSONAL LIVES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH NOSY BIBLE THUMPERS.

4) This whole deal against same-sex marriage is just like the ’60s and the segregation issue. Why? Because we are being denied the right to pursuit of happiness by not being allowed to have the same rights as freaking straight people, JUST LIKE the African-Americans back in the dark days of American Civil Rights. Marriage is, in the sense of being bonded to a loving partner, a form of happiness. And we have a right to pursue it. People will say, “No. No, denying gay couples the right to marry is not the same as the discrimination against blacks. Homosexuality is not a skin color”. That – like everything else the anti-everythings say – is tosh. Religion isn’t a skin color, either. Maybe we should deny religious people the right to marry on that reasoning.

5) “I’m married.” “I’m civil-unioned.” Feels different, doesn’t it? Just because forms of discrimination may not show up in the frontward sense doesn’t mean those forms can’t work underground. The elephant in the room that nobody talks about or does anything about.

6) Proposition 8 and its filthy creed are a violation of both the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America. Look them up and read them. There is no basis for this madness that denies people like us the right to marry.