California to ban gay marriage
Earlier this year the California courts legalized same-sex marriage, but the constitutional amendment that passed Tuesday, Proposition 8, will limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
"There's something deeply wrong with putting the rights of a minority up to a majority vote," said Evan Wolfson, a gay-rights lawyer who heads a group called Freedom to Marry. "If this were being done to almost any other minority, people would see how un-American this is."
With almost all precincts reporting election results had the measure winning with about 52 per cent of the vote, and Proposition 8 supporters declared victory Wednesday
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Isn't it a perfect "democracy" when the PEOPLE get to decide what they want rather than the LIBERALS in CANADA deciding for you.
In Canada, we don't have democracy.
One vote every 4 years is nothing.
In the USA, you get about 25 votes every 2 to 4 years.
In the USA, the people get to decide their fate.
In Canada, the Liberals think they own the country and its people, so its shoves immoral laws down everyones throat.
That's not democracy.
It's dictatorship.
Stockwell Day once proposed that any petition that received 3% support from the electorate should trigger a referendum, but he eventually backed away from it. I guess having a million people signing a petition to change your name from "Stockwell" to "Doris" woke him up to the idea that the rights of a minority (in this case a man named "Stockwell Day" to keep his name) shouldn't be determined by a referendum. Now, it would have been funny if Stockwell had been forced to change his name, but it wouldn't have been right.
No government should be stuffing laws down people's throats. This also includes liberal activist judges.
The people own the country, not the government.
The people should have the say, not the government.
The people shouldn't have laws shoved down their throats by an activist goverment who forces members to vote or be kicked out.
Canada and its one vote every 4 years is not a democracy.
You can't even vote for the damn P.M in this country.
Democracy? Yeah right!
Actually, if you think about it, this has very little to do with shoving something down anyone's throats. It's about governments acknowledging same-sex unions. How this hurts/helps anyone outside of the people deciding to get married is the real question.
And you know what -- homosexuals pay taxes. They vote. They participate in society. It's not as though they're a foreign element being forced by the government on the public.
Of course, I doubt that nothing this will stop anyone from his/her so-called "fight" against same-sex marriage.
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