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Equality for All - The Civil Rights Cause We Must Win!
tasithoughts.wordpress.com — Equality for All is a grass roots organization of gay, straight, and others from all walks of life out to convince voters to vote NO on Prop. 8 which if passed in November will ban same sex marriage by adding an amendment to the state constitution in California. There is growing momentum to make sure the measure is defeated. Digg this story!
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- grated4life, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1http://rich-currency.info/platinum-palladium/
- nowsamsara, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6Equality should NOT be based on genitalia. It's absurd, unevolved, and base.
- adayahead, on 07/22/2008, -3/+4As a clergyperson, I could not possibly agree more!! And recent polls show an increasing likelihood that this stupid, misguided, hateful amendment will be defeated. I'm friending you, please friend me back, and let's hope for the best.
- Rotzooi, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1Buried for being clergy.
- kavutu, on 07/22/2008, -9/+1If you want to be a tuna licker or a fudge packer you are going against normal, decent humane behavior. The lesbos and ***** have NO rights other that what the US Constitution gives them. they want to be SPECIAL then leave America. We don't need you anyway.
- WTFppl, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6The "U.S." does not need 'hate'. So we do not need you!
- Rotzooi, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Look, it's the Digg Republican!
- Minarchian, on 07/22/2008, -4/+3Look...even IF this were to get passed it would be in violation of the US Constitution as an illegal encroachment into religious matters.
Marriage is a religious, not a Government institution. It is only recognized by Government, not controlled by it.
In reality....if a couple can find a preacher, imam, priest, rabbi, or whatever, that will marry them, the Government has no constitutional authority to do anything but accept it. Either accept it for all, or accept it for none.
But since when has our Government followed the letter and intent of the Constitution?- lydecker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3I don't know that that's correct. If it were, that would mean the government has no constitutional authority to accept all polygamous marriages where religion allows it. It would also mean that if marriage was religious, non-religious people would not be able to be married by a justice of the peace.
- lydecker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2"that would mean the government has no constitutional authority to [do anything but] accept all polygamous marriages."
Sorry.
- lydecker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2"that would mean the government has no constitutional authority to [do anything but] accept all polygamous marriages."
- twitchr, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2"A marriage is often formalized during a marriage ceremony,[5] which may be performed either by a religious officiant, by a secular State authorised officiator, or (in weddings that have no church or state affiliation) by a trusted friend of the wedding participants. The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved and, in many societies, their extended families.
Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses." The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam gives men and women the "right to marriage" regardless of their race, colour or nationality, but not religion."
- lydecker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3I don't know that that's correct. If it were, that would mean the government has no constitutional authority to accept all polygamous marriages where religion allows it. It would also mean that if marriage was religious, non-religious people would not be able to be married by a justice of the peace.
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