Can someone explain to me....

[johno]

Just what Prop 8 protects my marriage from?

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[cambler.livejournal.com]

Dilution of meaning from teh gheys. Duh?

/sarcasm

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

Just what Prop 8 protects my marriage from?
"Them"!

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I'd love to say "the Mormons" but they're the one's driving this stupid train.

[chiefted]

Don't know but if you find out can you clue me in too?

(Side note: I got a very nice thank you from one of the "No on 8" folks at the Caltrain station in SF today
when I put my hand up in the "don't need the flyer" way, told her I already voted no on prop 8)

[mortefina.livejournal.com]

from the scary homos that want to be a family just like dick and jane and have babies and be normal!

(sarcastic)

I'd say ....

[capplor.livejournal.com]

(let's see if I can phrase this coherently) it protects you from the lack of ability to discriminate, persecute, and otherwise look down on people whose family structure is different from the accepted nuclear 2 married parents producing at least 2.3 children only with each other model. Wait, you have no kids? Never mind. /sarcasm

[wickedladybear.livejournal.com]

It must be protecting you from all the ebil gheys that want to storm your bedroom and find out everything you do there and then arrest you for doing it. . wait, that's the yes on 8 folks. . .

[discodj.livejournal.com]

The corrupting influence of gay people. Seriously.
They think that if their kids never hear of homosexuality, then they'll never have a gay son or daughter. It's that simple.
I mean look at how well ignoring sex in general has done for them. (See Sarah Palin's daughter).

You should try living where I do.
I have no idea what a "No on 8" sign looks like because I haven't seen one. Although I have seen one (and I mean literally, one) Obama/Biden sign.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can explain, in all seriousness and with no malice intended.

Proposition 8 protects conservative married people from having to think about gays. They don't have to consider whether two same-sex people are Mr. and Mr. or Mrs. and Mrs. or anything other than 'friends.'

They don't have to wake up in the middle of the night and think about any fleeting same-sex thoughts they might have had.

What the Prop 8 supporters are seeking is to be able to go back to the "good old days" where gays could be safely ignored.

[drangnon.livejournal.com]

that's not protecting the marriage though.

[drangnon.livejournal.com]

but, I can actually answer this question.

many religions consider marriage to be something sanctioned by that religion's diety. hence the term "sanctity". by redefining marriage to include acts that are against that religion's laws, we therefore remove it from being under the diety's sanction.

by stopping that redefinition, the "sanctity of marriage" is thus protected.

of course, the flaw in that argument is that it's not up to the government to protect the sanctity of anything, that is the job of religious institutions.

I personally am against "marriage" as an institution of government entirely. let the religious institutions deal with it. let's have the government merely define contractual family obligations between any number or gender of consenting adults. then everyone gets to define their family units as they wish and we are all happy. even the fundie mormons as long as the polygamy involves girls above the age of consent.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

What is a marriage, anyway?

A shared hallucination.

[ramblingmom.livejournal.com]

It protects your marriage from *CHANGE*. See if we allow gays and lesbians to marry that would be CHANGE and CHANGE is BAD!!! I mean look we CHANGED and gave them women folk and those uppity niggers the right to vote and LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!

EVERY time we CHANGE something BAD things happen.

[rinolj.livejournal.com]

Canadians.

Bicyclists.

Vietnamese peasants in sanpans.

Haven't you ever heard of the Domino Theory, man? Where's your patriotism?

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

They think that if their kids never hear of homosexuality, then they'll never have a gay son or daughter.

...Instead leading their children to share really fascinating misinformation on the playground. My eight-year-old is happy to repeat the things she hears of that nature, although she giggles at the absurdity in it. (We live in a mixed-leaning-conservative suburban area of Dallas, Texas.)

[elf]

Marriage has always been a civil institution--a way to coordinate properties and care for children. That's the reason a mayor or ship's captain or Justice of the Peace can perform marriages--because it's essentially not a religious contract, but a civil one, which every religion has ways to relate to.

Occasionally, I think that "marriage" should only be for families with underage children, and everyone else should have "civil unions." And let churches' notions of "who is really married" make no more difference to the law than their notions of "who is really baptised"... being spiritually pure doesn't exempt you from a scrubdown before surgery, and being spiritually married doesn't exempt you from taxes.

[jbetando.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!

Um, it protects marriage from the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu. Right!