Protest the passage of Prop 8

[sistermagpie]

> Alla:
> 
> Well, but see, when voting means that homosexual couples would be 
> denied certain rights yes, I consider it oppression. I agree with 
> Cabal - nobody would force churches to perform same sex marriages and 
> if anybody would, they have a right to refuse to. Heck, my colleague 
> is going to be married ( to a guy) and she wants to get married on 
> Thursday instead of Saturday or Sunday and her church initially said 
> that they do not marry people on Thursdays. WTF. And she really 
> wanted to get married in her church, where she went all her life, 
> where her parents went and still go, etc, etc.

Magpie:
That's my impression too. (And there could be more differences created 
down the line if the one kind of union is different than the other.) We 
don't vote to legally decide on definitions of words, so there must be 
a legal component. I doubt most people are really aware of just how the 
different words can mean different things. Ironically, the actual 
defintion, meaning what the word means, seems to have easily expanded 
to include same-sex unions the same way most words change their 
meanings over time. I mean, it's not like anybody is confused by 
what "gay marriage" or "same sex marriage" means. Obviously it means 
the same thing as straight marriage only with two people of the same 
sex. Comprehension isn't the problem so much as wanting to make some 
other distinction for straight couples (usually, in my experience, a 
distinction of superiority). Which an individual or a church can 
certainly do no matter what the law says. It's not the law's business 
how people view same-sex couples, just whether legally they are the 
same.

-m