Is Gay Marriage A Two-Sided Issue?

When I attended a rally against California's anti-gay marriage initiative, Proposition 8, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento this week, the local media covered little of what I saw, instead focusing on two-sided controversies that did not get to the heart of the issue.

You can see video of the full October 21, 2008, No on 8 rally at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=421FEF862E85D038

Speakers/Sponsors at that rally included:

Kathleen Montgomery of PFLAG (Emcee)
Mayor Heather Fargo
Carey Park, Sacramento firefighter
California Nurses Association
California Teachers Association
AFSCME
SEUI-UHW
The Very Reverend Brian Baker, Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Freddie Oakley, Registrar/County Clerk, Yolo County
Stuart Eldridge, Representative of Kevin Johnson
ACLU of Northern California

You can see some further examples of the media artificially covering the rally as a two-sided controversy at http://www.kcra.com/video/17774884/index.html

And at http://cbs13.com/local/Fargo.Slams.Johnson.2.845621.html

Finally, you can get more information about the No on 8 campaign at http://www.noonprop8.com/

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[magicalshrimp23]

I read up on some such studies, and they say that while children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to not be confined by gender stereotypes or to explore homosexuality, their emotional health is perfectly equal. So basically, a child raised by two gay parents is simply raised to be more open minded. Sounds perfectly fine to me.

[Permaglo]

Show me a pig that can understand and consent to a legal contract, and we'll talk about pig-human marriage.

As for those who practise polygamy, they already can marry their partners. Gays and lesbians are not permitted to marry ANY potential partners.

By your reasoning, infertile couples shouldn't be able to get married, because "they can never produce the natural family..." Ability to procreate aside, the families gays form are in little to no way different than those of straight couples.

[ijmbvck]

@shananagans5 I don't know what its like in America, but here (the Netherlands) you can marry for the state not for the church. It doesn't have anything to do with the church if you want to.

Why would you get married? Because here it gives some tax benefits, and the promise that you will stay with each other, but that's a small thing isn't it? :P

[yaycookies14]

@TehAWAL Indeed, it will cause some issues with other individuals that do not approve.

[TehAWAL]

@yaycookies14 yea but either way putting a kid in that position is setting him up for failure

[yaycookies14]

@TehAWAL Well I agree, they will get bullied from having homosexual parents. But psychologically speak, they grow up thinking normal. If the parents of course allow the child to grow up as a child should the odds of the child being "Psychologically fucked" is very slim.

[TehAWAL]

@magicalshrimp23 no they grow up different, not having a father figure to show them basic shit that fathers teach children they will be socialy awkward Ive seen it happen so if you agree your a close minded fuck. I think there is nothing wrong with gay marriage but I have seen kids get psychologically fucked for having gay parents, and not only that why would you put a child in that position? A kid who has gay parents will get shit from all the other kids and become an outcast

[jacevicki]

Gay marriage is part of the slippery slope of liberalism. First the liberals took away the God-given right to own other people as slaves. Now they are taking away the right to treat people as second class citizens. What's next? Taking away the right to kill people? No more death penalty leads to medicare which leads to socialism.

[Woofy1029]

Should gay marriage be legal: YES

It's not a two-sided issue when one side is full of shit.

[kmelfina]

Legal = state recognized. Church = belief which you can ALWAYS HAVE. The 2 should never mix. Kind of sad that most of the people arguing against gay marriage don't even know most of the good people they're affecting even if the families with children with that afflict no harm on everyone else's families cause any harm whatsoever. Besides marriage is a union between 2 people who are truly in consentual love.

[wetdream09]

woo gay marriage!! lol, it's gonna happen here in California where i live, hopefully in 2012!!! hehe