4 'Men in Black' - vote yes on Prop 8

It's a plain democratic abuse when
the voices of 4,300,000 people are completely ignored!

Vote yes on Prop 8. Protect marriage, and the democratic process!

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[Benjabob2012]

The majority isn't always right. If we only believed what the majority though, we might still have slavery.

[LilyLuka]

Minority rights should never be voted on by the majority!!!!!

[RCSVirginia]

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."

Thomas Jefferson

[RCSVirginia]

Let us not forget another case of plain democratic abuse. On 12 June 1967, in the case of Loving Versus Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws banning interracial marriage in the United States. This was done by a court decision, based on the constitution, and not by any popular vote. Our courts exist, in large part, to protect the rights of the individual and to prevent the rights of the minority from being taken away by the majority.

[jasonthugs]

(3) I may not personally agree with the "religious beliefs" or personal opinions of someone else but I am not going to get the Constitution amended to prevent them from practicing their personal beliefs because I would not want someone to do the same to me. Our freedoms stop where someone else's begin. Do not infringe on someone else's freedoms unless you are willing to have someone infringe on your freedoms.

[jasonthugs]

(2) If those issues had been put up for a vote, at that time, African Americans would still be living under the repression of the Jim Crow Laws. There is separation of church and state for a reason and there is a reason that the civil rights of a minority should never be put to a vote. Fear and ignorance are very powerful forces when humans are confronted with something that they do not understand.

[jasonthugs]

(1) Using this logic, we should have the civil rights of all minority groups up for a vote. I am very glad that we had "activist judges" when the Jim Crow laws were overruled by Brown V. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965!

[TheAnnoyingThing1915]

When did we start voting on peoples rights? Oh yeah! 2000 -__-

[thomaseshuis]

@andruandspanky Google: Why Same Sex Marriage is a Civil Rights Issue, to see that homosexual unions do not get the same legal rights as married couples.

[thomaseshuis]

@andruandspanky The point is that homosexuals who are not allowed to marry don't get espousal rights, like visiting rights. There's no reason they should not get those rights, whatever your opinion on homosexuality is, unless your not for equality before the law.

[andruandspanky]

@thomaseshuis I have thought of what it would be like to be in a gay's shoes. And it must suck, no question about it. But at the same time I live in my shoes. And in this instance only one of us could be happy with this outcome and why not me? And also, given that the state allows and the fed is not doing anything to prevent two gay people from choosing to be in a life-long committed relationship with each other, I don't feel too guilty.