In Wednesday's Letters to the editor
Proposition 8 rules the roost -- again -- in Wednesday's Letters to the editor.
This time, the focus is last week's protests against the Mormon Church. Some letter writers, like the Prop. 8 supporters interviewed in this Times story from Tuesday, aren't impressed. Robert D. Holmes, of Arcadia, writes:
The demonstrations against Proposition 8 make me question my vote against it. The behavior of many supporters of gay marriage is disgraceful and, in my estimation, is likely to work against the progress that has been made in gay rights.
Stephen Newcomer, of West Hollywood, disagrees:
When tax-exempt churches use their pulpits and money to demean and destroy gay relationships and families they should not be surprised when protesters appear on their doorsteps.
The acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services apologizes for delays in Medicare reimbursements; a reader muses that we're all mutts, really; and another reader criticizes Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's frequent absences from L.A.
*Photo of Proposition 8 protest by George Frey/Getty Images.
To the Prop 8 protesters:
You want your vote to count but mine to be invalid
and yet you talk about being equal.
You accept money form the teachers union ($1Million) but deny you have anything to do with schools
Yet you criticize me for taking money from faith based groups even though we have never hid our belief that traditional marriage
and its civil expression is based on God given ideas and values.
The people of CA have spoken (twice) some sides win and some lose, that is the way it is a Democracy.
And look at the numbers alot of people who voted "BLUE" also voted YES. can we invalidate their votes too?
Your street demonstrations only show your own intolerance and prejudice and makes clear you lack of understanding of what it means to live in a Democratic country. You are doing yourselves and your cause more harm then good, look at the results of the illegal immigrant rights rallies, no laws changed but they now are widely looked down on as anti American.
There is and was never any constitutional reason for the courts to throw out the peoples valid vote.
You talk of a violation of your civil rights but show little understanding of that legal definition. Under the Domestic Partners statues in CA law, all of you civil rights are protected. Having a marriage license will not give you any more rights then you already have except to pretend you are the same as us.
What EXACTLY are these "civil" rights you say I have that you don't??? You can vote, work, eat, drink, sleep, live, serve in the army, have sex, have (adopt) kids, go to school, get medical care, and die everywhere I can. What additional "rights" will you gain that are not already covered under the Equal Protection clauses in the constitution.
If the court caves into popular pressure and overturns Prop 8, then maybe the right wing IS correct and the US is moving more toward a Socialist state and away from a Democracy. The State is already starting to "nationalize" us by buying up the banks, property, and privately owned companies. And if what Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia said in an AP article dated Nov. 11 is true Obama will establish a Gestapo-like "national security force" to impose a Marxist / Socialist style of government on the US. Where is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when you need him!
California,
Love it, Leave it or move to Massachusetts (or now Connecticut too)
Posted by: edugreat | November 13, 2008 at 03:46 PM