Late but good news anyway ;)

I could have sworn that I had already commented on this but it appears that I haven’t.

First, the California Proposition that tried to ban gay marriages (the infamous Proposition 8)  has been found unconstitutional.¹

Then the Pro8 folks tried to overturn that ruling based on the fact that the Judge was openly gay.

Finally, the US District Court refuses to overturn that ruling.

In other news, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is declared unconstitutional in Federal Court.

The ruling Monday was also signed by 19 other judges on the 24-member court in an unusually emphatic display of consensus, he said.

That is an outstanding show of support for a judicial ruling.

In all of this I still haven’t gotten a clear answer. The key argument for Prop 8 is that it directly damages the bonds of heterosexual marriage. My question is: How does homosexual or any other form of consensual marriage damage heterosexual marriage?

Please, answer exactly and in simple secular terms, leaving your mythical gods at the door. It is a very simple question and I have yet to get even a complex answer. It is a question that the antagonists should have raised during the votation but the bible-thumpers shouted them down (how is that free speech, BTW).

As for the rest: Keep your gods out of my politics!

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1. I apologize for not having saved the actual link for this one [↩]

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