10/20; Yes on Prop 8-ers- READ!

I still fail to see how this effects you at all. “Protecting the values of marriage,” my ass. How is any of this any different than the civil rights movement? The “separate but equal” bathrooms fifty years ago? It’s still denying your fellow human being of god-given rights. 

How can you deny your fellow human being of one of the greatest things on the planet? How can you deny someone the right to love openly? 

Because whether you know it or not, that’s what you’re doing. Every single one of you. You’re denying your fellow human being the right to love and the right to express their love openly- without fear of rejection.

What if the roles were reversed? What if we lived in a world where it was the “norm” to love someone of the same sex? What if you were in love with someone of a different sex, but the rest of us were attempting to pass a bill to deny you of expressing that openly? That’s what you are doing to countless people. 

For one thing, all of these videos- they speak of school standards in MASSACHUSETTS- not California, where this law is being passed. Second, that ignorance of the 4,000 voters part in the first video is complete garbage. If an informed voter would just do a little research they’d realize that the Senate did anything but ignore the votes. 

Also, in the second video you say that you’re bigoted against for simply disagreeing with a lifestyle or belief (2nd; 2:58). You say that things are no longer a “difference of opinion.” But isn’t that your fault to begin with? You’re trying to pass the bill which makes it illegal for them to practice their “difference of opinion.” 

This reminds me of fifty years ago, when people enforced your “difference of opinion” on black rights, or one hundred years ago, when people enforced their “difference of opinion” on women and their rights. 

So putting your blatant bigotry aside and putting the fact that you’re using the wrong state to persuade uninformed voters aside, you also just flat-out have your facts wrong. Gay Marriage doesn’t effect religious establishments in any way. I quote, 

“​.​.​.​no relig​ion will be requi​red to chang​e it’s relig​ious polic​ies or pract​ices in regar​d to same-​sex coupl​es,​ and no relig​ious offic​iant will be requi​red to solem​nize a marri​age.​.​.​”​ 

Hold on, I have one more point to argue as far as public schooling goes. Let’s just say that you’re talking about Californian schools here, not Massachusetts schools, and let’s also assume that Californian schools have marriage in their state standards, which they don’t. Let’s assume all of that, yes?

You’re still just flat out wrong. Please, point out one Kindergarten teacher that can reference gay marriage logically in their daily math lesson. As if you didn’t loose any voters by your earlier form of blatant propaganda, you just lost them by comparing marriage to an addition symbol.

Also, “saving” your child’s innocence. What rubbish. How many children do you think call each other “gay” or “faggots” on the playground without even knowing what it means? I’d rather have these children exposed to factual evidence about marriage than this. But again, this means nothing- because the Californian curriculum doesn’t even mention the topic of marriage!

So let’s just do a quick overview.

Voting YES on Proposition 8 does 3 simple things:

• It restores the definition of marriage to what the vast majority of California voters already approved and what Californians agree should be supported, not undermined.The main point of marriage is the binding of two people who love each other. I don’t see what role sexual orientation plays in it. This bill was never approved- that’s why it lost the first time around.

• It overturns the outrageous decision of four activist Supreme Court judges who ignored the will of the people.“Ignored.” This just never happened. There is a difference between being ignored and losing. 

• It protects our children from being taught in public schools that “same-sex marriage” is the same as traditional marriage, and prevents other consequences to Californians who will be forced to not just be tolerant of gay lifestyles, but face mandatory compliance regardless of their personal beliefs.Again, the Californian curriculum doesn’t even mention marriage- they leave that to the parents. Notice how Yes on Prop 8 ads focus on Massachusetts curriculum? Mandatory compliance? The bill doesn’t even mention compliance! You’re confusing the public’s response to blatant discrimination with the bill’s statements themselves.

The Italics are directly from protectmarriage.com, the Yes on Prop 8 official website. The bolded is my comment.