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The Heritage Foundation report "The Price of Prop 8" published online

Submitted by Wayne from Jere... on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 18:53

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/upload/bg_2328-3.pdf

Abstract: Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry. Arguments for same-sex marriage are based fundamentally on the idea that limiting marriage to the union of husband and wife is a form of bigotry, irrational prejudice, and even hatred against homosexual persons. As this ideology seeps into the culture more generally, individuals and institutions that support marriage as the union of husband and wife risk paying a price for that belief in many legal, social, economic, and cultural contexts.

Appairently? it may have been introduced into court proceeding today. Hat tip http://www.adfmedia.org/ twitter feed

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there's 2 parts: legal and ceremonial

Submitted by Brown138 on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 23:19.

The ceremony part should be according to each individuals traditions. The legal part should be a standardised 'power of attorney' type document and apply to all people equaly. 

My question is: why is the government performing marriages at all?  Most states have abolished the office of Justice of the Peace, so any of these state marriages are notheing more than a court clerk reading some words and making sure everyone signs in the right place.  Hardly what I would call a ceremony.

Problem is that a lot of gays are using the issue to try and get state sponsored approval for their life style. Thats ridiculous.  The state should enforce basic rights and not endorse any one group's idea of the "right way to live".