Protest the passage of Prop 8

[sistermagpie]

Doddiemouse:

> My brother and I were raised outside of the U.S. because so many 
> states deemed my parents marriage "unlawful"...Why legislate 
> marriage at all?  Marriage began as a religious ceremony...let it 
> remain so..
> 
> When one thinks of all the money wasted to change a law the 
> goverment has no right to involve itsself in to begin with..it 
makes 
> me wonder where on earth were all the attorney's hiding before the 
> election.

Magpie:
I think that's backwards. Marriage began as a *civil* ceremony. Every 
religion is different, but at least that's the way it is in 
Christianity. The church got involved after people were already being 
married. 

Which makes total sense since what everybody was worried about was 
the property exchange. Not the idea that there was some holy bond 
going on. The sacredness that most people associate with marriage 
today certainly didn't apply since people didn't have to get married 
for love. Dad handing over his property (his daughter) to somebody 
else for their property (a wife). That legal set up then set in 
motion other legal set ups like inheritance etc.

-m