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Proposition 8 - Same-Sex Marriage - Page 3

Marriage has always been between a man and a woman. Its like how you Americans put peanut butter and jelly together between two slices of bread, you know all fits just right. Two of the same sex is like putting two slices of bread with two slices of bread and then you stop and wonder what the excitement is about. Nothing peanutty or jelly to go between. If two guys want to get a marriage certificate then whats the difference if they just live together? Some countries ban homosexuality altogether and others embrace it wholeheartedly.

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It's the fancy wedding "Celebration" along with the rings. You should know americans, we complain if there are pickles on our hamburgers. If they'd just keep it as simple as you say thinktank, keeping marriage as a man and women well, it might actually work. But the problem is, here in america people can't keep things simple. America is very contrary by nature. The world wants to use meters? Well then, we'll use feet.

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Of course they can, they are doing it now.

Sure it can. But that doesn't mean that a government-run, public school should sponsor a field trip for the kids to be at a same-sex wedding during school hours. I remember teachers getting married when I was in grade school, but the school never sponsored any field trips to the wedding.

Yes, the parents have a say in whether or not their children are allowed to go, but the fact that the school is providing a taxpayer-paid bus for these kids to use to attend a same-sex wedding as a school-sponsored activity is WRONG.

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This wouldn't even be a damned issue it weren't for all the gays infesting hollywood and the minds of the youth. Ever notice how we suddenly have a bunch of gay youth that are exposing themselves for rights?

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TrueWhite, I would really not prefer this thread to be a rant against gays. My concern is what's happening with the law. The behavior and how you feel about that should be taken to another thread, please.

Thank you,
Roz

Proposition 8 - Same-Sex Marriage

Anyways, I had a math teacher last year who had a sponsored trip to her wedding. But, until the issue on same-sex marriage is properly solved, I don't think the school boards really have a say so on whether or not it is wrong. They just have to do the more liberal thing. It keeps the school board away from lawsuits since technically it isn't illegal yet.

Proposition 8 Same-Sex Marriage - Page 3

So the bill isn't exclusively about banning legal same-sex marriage and it isn't exclusively about teaching children that same-sex marriage is OK. Those are two separate issues that this bill is trying to smooth over as one. The two issues need to be dealt with separately and neither one should be written off just to pass or deny the other.

Schools and communities should have the ability to straighten out what should or should not be taught in school.

As a child in about grade 3 or 4 (I can't remember exactly), I was attending a Christian school. There was an agreement between the school and parents that the teachers would ONLY teach the children science if the school had the parents' permission. The students were clearly notified by the teacher that science contradicted the bible at some points, and the parents had the decision on whether or not their child would learn certain material. Even when I was in science class, if there was any subject being taught that contradicted the bible, the teacher would clearly explain what the scientific theory was and then explain what the bible teaches on the subject. The teacher would make sure that we understood that he was teaching us the scientific theory for our knowledge, but that the bible teaches differently.

This method of explaining both sides to students was very unbiased and beneficial to students to educate them on both subjects from the bible and other happenings of the world without being told that either one was exclusively right and that the students could make their own choice.

There were probably other agreements made between the school and the parents of the community that I was unaware of in earlier years. However, this seems like the fairest type of solution when it comes to the schools teaching contradictory materials.

Proposition 8 Same-Sex Marriage Politics Business Civil & History - Page 3

A christian school isn't government funded. Therefor it is a private institution and follow a small amount of guidelines. Anyways, I was just looking at the "Constitutional Amendment Article 1, New section" Which goes on to say that Marriage is defined by the legal union for only one husband and one wife, and that the government will not allow any thing similar to marriage to be legal for same-sex partnership. Anyways, I pondered on this, because I feel I understand this issue a little more than before and I came up with this solution.

Marriage, is socially defined as the sanction of a man and women. Albeit that all it is really is a ceremony to conduct these people into a happy life together. Through out history it has always been this way. But now a days there are other issues. Such as Insurance and taxes. Here is what I propose. We should have the, as you said earlier Farseer:

This way, they can have the benefits of marriage, without it being brought up in church or people being controversial over it ruining Traditional Marriage. That is probably what you've been trying to say in the first place Farseer. I just didn't get the whole picture until today. Amazingly enough though. My mom made me go into the local Democrat headquarters. And they were having this debate. They were all for same-sex marriage, but I got something different from it. The Idea that they should just go under a marriage certificate just seems to make more sense. There is less controversy, and if you use some logic, everyone gets something from it. But, I don't think banning anything that could even represent a marriage between same-sex couples, does seem a little over-the-top.

Edited: Rhieland on 20th Oct, 2008 - 10:30pm