Cali Supreme Court ruling on legality of same-sex marriage ban

To compare the opposition to “gay marriage” to racial bigotry is to compare Bugs Bunny to Humphrey Bogart. There is nothing bigoted about opposing the legalization of “gay marriage,” and those who say there is are making cartoon characters out of themselves. Get real! There is NOTHING mentioned in the U.S. Constitution about gay people and their equal rights to get married. Gay people already have all the rights that I have. They are free to choose, just like me. There is no issue here that matters enough to bother the law with it. But bigots like you have turned it into a comic strip.”HMEdited by Hoot Mon, : No reason given.

But we already have that. There is nothing I can do legally that a gay person can't. And don't give me the "Gays can't marry who they love" argument. If I loved two women and can only marry one a a time. Am I hollering for relief from such preposterous bigotry? Come on! We already are exactly equal under the law.”Hm

So do I, in terms of civil unions. If you still have a problem over that then you qualify for the B word. I'm more equal and fair than you are, because you are demanding special exemptions and I am happy the way things are.Hey, I'm in love with the woman next door, but her bigoted husband says I can't marry her. He's a big bigot, too, and he'd like to break my knees. Oh, but I loooooove her! It's just not fair! Let's change the law.”HM

Apples and river rocks. This is just like comparing "gay marriage" to abolition of the slaves. If gays can have their civil unions sanctioned by law, just like I can, then what more do want? Affirmative actions programs for homosexuals?Can you picture Barney Franks introducing the Hershey Highway bill in Congress?”HM

No one is claiming here that "gay marriage" would ruin straight marriages. "Ruin" in the wrong verb. But I am claiming that the only way to find out if "gay marriage" would adversely affect those who are married the regular way: ask them. If they say it would affect them then who are you to say it shouldn't? You are assuming, bluecat, that their is a single moral authority on this issue. All we have here are opinions and comparisons. And when people compare America's resistance to "gay marriage" with American's history of enslaving blacks I am reassured that they don't know what the hell they're talking about.”HM

In America we are duty bound to discriminate against any Mormon evolutionary biologist who speaks Chinese in public and listens to 80s music. It's just not American!”HMEdited by Hoot Mon, : oopsie

I can't marry the wife of the guy who lives next door. And I can't get married to more than one woman at a time. And I can't use the ladies restroom. The law says I can't do these things, even if I don't want to. I'm no better off than gay people. In fact they have an advantage over me. They can solicit sex much better in public restrooms when they are segregated according men's and women's. We know from Sen. Larry Craig's queer foolishness that men's rooms in airports are nifty gathering places for inter-stall toe tapping. Not a bad way to score a BJ. But there is a preponderance of opinion against yours. What gives you the right to call your other people bigots just because they disagree with your opinion. Isn't THAT closer to the true definition of bigotry?”HM

But why does it matter what they call themselves? The only thing that really matters is that the government gets out of the business of marriage. Some people on this thread call themselves educated, and they still use the word "bigot" to describe people who disagree with them. That proves to me that you can be educated and still be ignorant.”HM

It's worse than that. I've lost my appetite for Hershey bars. Now I have to make my somemores with peanut butter.”HM

Not if I want to keep out of trouble with him and the law. He's big s.o.b., and he claims the law is on his side. Well, damn it, I suppose it is. Bigoted bastard! I'd like to send a 2x4 up his Hershey Highway.”HM

You mean to say that they are not as free to choose as I am? Not true! They have EXACTLY the same options available to them as I have to me. What they want is special treatment under the law, special exemptions for self-chosen aberrations that the majority of Americans deem inconsistent with the spirit of the law as it was written. It's not much different from people who want to raise dogs for BBQ purposes. The law says they can't. Now, what kind of bigoted law is that? Why should anyone care if I want to put chopped puppy livers in my salad?”HM

I agree. I've been in love with more than one woman at a time. I think my person record is five. But I couldn't marry them all at once, not legally. So, as you say, I don't have the RIGHT to concurrently marry every woman I love.”HM

Sorry to butt in here, but isn't bestiality a sexual orientation?”HM

You mean to say the sheep don't dig it?

And from the vast, undifferentiated plane we get this: Well, he can always have a sex change, you know. Then he could marry the man he loves. He's free to do that; so am I. The only thing that separates us from doing that is CHOICE. And his choices are EXACTLY the same as mine.”HM