Re: Against Gay Marriage in California.

"I am for gay rights and am a liberal socialist."

LOL Why do I seriously doubt that?

Your argument is the typical "slippery slope" one that most people who are conservative and hate to see things change, regardless of whether that change is for the better or worse, bring up with regard to gay marriage. Gay people have always been with us, and always will be with us. Polygamy has been around too, the most recent example being the early Mormon church, but giving same sex couples the right to marry has nothing to do with polygamy, bestiality or anything else. It simply recognizes the fact that there are gay couples (many of whom are parents, and are raising children) the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. Why do people want to deny this civil right to gays? Could it have anything to do with their religious views? If so, those views have no place in secular society. Civil marriage is separate from religious marriage, and churches are free to marry whoever they want, and to deny marriage to whoever they want. The state, however, cannot deny the basic right of marriage to its citizens because of any religious prohibition.

Massachusetts had had legal gay marriage since 2005. Many countries in Europe, as well as Canada, have legalized gay marriage, and have not seen anything like "polygamy, polyandry or anything else." There has been no movement to legalize marriage between adults and children, adults and animals, or any other weird combination you can imagine. Homosexuals have been around forever, and they have been fighting to be treated the same as heterosexuals in this country for the past 40 years or so. Gay marriage is just another step in recognizing that we all have the same rights under the Constitution.

This is a human rights issue, pure and simple. May years ago, marriage between people of different races was also illegal. People had the same arguments against intermarriage then as they do now against marriage between persons of the same gender. Some said that the Bible prohibited racial intermixing. Of course, that argument overlooked the fact that the white and black races have intermixed, illegally, for generations in this country, since the first slaves were brought over from Africa. Those arguments were wrong then, and they are wrong now.

If two people love each other, and they are adults, why should there be a law against their being married? Why do you want to deny people their rights to have legal status, just because they are the same sex?