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carlos…really nice….great viewpoint from up on the steps….always an inspiration…

Just wanted to let you know your link for the rest of the pics is not working.

Great work, great cause.

Chrissy,

It should be working. Did you click on the link under the photo, not on the photo itself?

Carlos, nice pics.
P.S. The link isn’t working for me either.

Chrissy,

Sorry. I thought you meant the “read more” link. Should be fixed now.

Scott,

Thanks, dude.

You do realize that this is the 2nd time California voted on this? Why should the will of the people be ignored for a minority?

More importantly, why should people demand special rights based on who they choose to copulate with?

Eric,

Back in the 1950s, the “will of the people” in the south was that blacks continue to be segregated from white society.

It took the National Guard to enforce this action.

I’m sure some people asked back then why should the will of the people be ignored for a minority?

The answer is, because sometimes the will of the people repress the rights of the minority.

My question to you is, why do you personally care whether or not a gay couple gets married?

How does it affect your life? Your finances? Your family?

Today we have 15 year old lesbians shooting each other in school. Awesome social progress!

Ed,

The violence in our school is hardly contained to the homosexual student population.

Besides, wouldn’t that just be an argument for better gun control or better gun education rather than an argument against gay marriage?

Ed, if I recall correctly, the shooters at columbine high school were 2 heterosexual males. Virginia Tech, heterosexual male. I haven’t actually seen any mass shooters who were gay.
And A comment on the issue of the Bible in all of this. Anyone who actually cares to read the Bible will know that the part that specifically states against homosexuality also says you can’t do anything on the Sabbath, can’t eat shrimp, and that we should bash the heads of Palestine babies against the rocks. I don’t see why it’s anyone else’s business anyway.
All the way back up to Eric, they aren’t demanding “special rights”, they are demanding rights that everyone else already has.
Well now I think I will step off my soapbox and let somebody else talk.

I’m all for gays having same rights as straight married couples but why do they have to call it “marriage”?
I think it will cloud the waters as to what the ultimate goal of a man and woman, in love, by nature do which is to procreate. Call it homosexual unions, love buddies, life partners, w/e and give them the same rights but leave the basic building blocks of marriage and mankind alone.

Ed, the hangup so many have with gay and lesbian marriage is the religious ideas and doctrines of marriage. No one is forcing any religious group to marry gays and lesbians against their will, in fact, religions deny straight couples the choice to marry in their churches every day for spiritual reasons. Affording gays and lesbians the right to marry under the law will not change that.

When the government adopted this word “marriage” to define the legal contract joining a couple and provided that couple under contract with extraordinary tax, estate and 1600 other rights, it was not for religious purposes. The government’s use of the word marriage to define that legal contract is what continues to be the only issue. The government should change the term for all marriages, not just gay and lesbian marriages, to remove the issue. If you want to call my marriage “love buddies” or “life partners” than straight marriage should be called the same. Separate but equal has failed many times in our country’s history and this is no different.

This is the ultimate battle of separation of church and state. Many of the others may have seemed silly but having the government define a law based on religion is exactly what the founding fathers were trying to avoid. Why? Because they didn’t want the law turned around and used on their religion.

And it has to be called marriage, the same way it turned out that separate but equal is not equal at all.
If you can tell homosexuals who to marry, you can then tell Christians who they can marry as well. It wasn’t that long ago that religion was the basis for laws against interracial marriage. But those values have fallen to the wayside.

The problem with the battle against homosexuality is that no one knows how to argue their case without pointing the religious finger at anyone.Simply saying over and over again,”it’s a sin,”doesn’t change anyone’s mind.Especially when the people arguing the point are just as sinful at who they’re pointing at,and even worse,ignorant.It has been shown in studies constantly that most people who are “faithful” don’t even read their bibles.So what does this mean?That the bible is,yet again,being used as an excuse for people’s hate and misunderstanding.