Freedom to Marry's Sean Eldridge Debates NOM's Maggie Gallagher after Prop 8 Ruling

Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry, debated Maggie Gallagher of the so-called "National Organization for Marriage" after a federal judge struck down California's Proposition 8 marriage ban for same-sex couples is unconstitutional.

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[ginb1289]

The only reason that most heterosexuals want to deny gays marriage is that it would mean that gays would be their equal.

It's the same reason that white people didn't want blacks to be afforded the same choice that they had to sit in front of the bus.

[seahorse05]

"altering the definition(s) of marriage.?" Not at all. 2nd Century AD: Roman emperor Elagabalus sent out a request for a male athlete named Aurelius Zoticus, whom he later marries in a lavish ceremony. 1552 : In the "History of the Indies," Francisco Lopez de Gomara documents men are marrying other men in the Indies (Caribbean Islands). Nero, ( a 1st Century AD Roman emperor ) became love-struck with a guy named Sporus---and married him in a public wedding.

[firstatheist]

"He convicted all of those Californians of irrational bigotry." Indeed he did, and guilty they were.

[igi024]

ANTI LGBT.. RESPECT PEOPLE WANTS!

[igi024]

every person has the right to choose and to love... to anti-LGBT my question is DO U WALK WITH THE PERSON I CHOOSE? I CLEAVE.. NOT YOU... IF I CHOOSE MY SAME GENDER ITS NOT UR PROBLEM... ITS MY CHOICE SO RESPECT!

[nicksum29]

Ugh, is this horrendous woman still doing rounds in the asylum.

[jbugarin2013]

This is like 'Beauty and the Beast' but with the gender roles reversed

[MRBBJC]

This issue is very clear. All Americans have to have the same right to marry the person that they love. Why are we even having such debate?

[Laroughtenshighton]

yuck!she totally destroy american dream,with her lich like face and pig body,fucking useless cunt.

[seahorse05]

@itsallthesametothem All the examples of cultures/societies/nations with same-sex marriages below that I shared were documented by Ethnographers.

The Portuguese "Catholic" same-sex marriages were discovered by Catholic Church leadership beyond the Catholic leader(s) or priest(s) that performed them and yes they weren't "sanctioned " by the Vatican leadership. Catholic leadership that didn't "sanction" those marriages/nuptials/weddings had the men that were married burned to death.

[itsallthesametothem]

@seahorse05 Well, I am not sure of the point here. Are there those would be in strident opposition to a stance of the Church, sure. If this did happen, it was not sanctioned by the Vatican. Now, we are certainly not going to change the minds of those who come here, nor are we going to be successful with each other. I would suggest we agree to disagree and hope the economy, which is infinitely more imoportant, rebounds.