My Obama buzz just got killed by this:
Gay Marriage Banned in California.
For Christ's sake, when will people stop being so narrow minded, ignorant, and prejudiced? Now this is the problem I have with gay marriage. I'm all for it. Love is love, and the emotion doesn't change just because it's between two people of the same sex. And that same emotion can drive two people to want to spend their lives with each other, and it is not the government's job to tell people that they can't. Now my problem with marriage is that it's generally a religious thing, and that is their right to ban it if they want, separation of church and state. However, civil unions are more of a government thing, so that means, to me, that the government has recognized the union and that they should be allowed the tax rights, hospital visitations, adoption rights, and all that stuff that straight couples are allowed. THAT is what people should be fighting for. If marriage is a religious thing, then let the church ban it, because it's the rights from the government that people are fighting for. My aunt and uncle are not religious, and they consider what they have to be a civil union because they went to town hall and don't need a priest to tell them they are married when they really don't buy into that stuff. This is disgusting.
Also, how could they ban adoption for same sex couples? I absolutely abhor the argument that a child cannot be raised properly with two parents of the same sex. What about all the terrorists out there? Bin Laden? Hussein? And the kids that wind up in rehab for trying to kill themselves or going on murder sprees? Convincts? Most of them had a mom and dad, and they don't seem to have been raised that well. A child doesn't need a mom and dad to be raised well, they need people who will love and care for them and protect them, and there is no justifiable argument that a gay couple can't do that.