The people of California voted to support Proposition 8. It was a simple common sense measure. "Gay marriage" is an oxymoron.
"Marriage," in the English language, means, "the mutual relation of husband and wife." Webster also says, "the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family." (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition)
Since marriage is the joining of men and women--that is its definition--the joining of people of the same sex is something other than marriage.
No one is being denied marriage. People who do not want to join in that special relation with a member of the opposite sex are not being denied marriage by the state. They are free to marry at any time. If they choose a homosexual relationship over marriage, that is their private business. If someone chooses a career over marriage, that is one's private concern, too. If one chooses to be a Catholic nun or priest over being married, that is one's right and private concern as well.
The people of California are simply upholding Biblical morality and the integrity of the English language in not letting an oxymoron go unchallenged. I understand we have the African-American community to thank for getting this amendment in place. They have strong religious roots. It is more than I can say for fellow Jews in the Reform and Conservative movements who have supported a departure from Biblical morality on this issue, not to mention doing violence to our mother tongue.
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