My vote is scenario #2 (how appropriate, since "hizzoner" is exceedingly interested in #2, it seems...)
the infowarrior
Marriage is a sacred union ordained by the church.
Civil union is live and let live.
They are not the same.
The problem I see here is that the state wants to dictate church doctrine.
It is not even a matter of a vote.
“Marriage” is ordained by the church.
I had a friend. Good Christian girl, she has passed away.
She got divorced and her own church would not remarry her to the next fellow.
So..civil union.
This was a rift with her and her church, but they never left her. (the rules were established) and she never left them.
Her funeral was beautiful
I explained to a friend of mine who supports gay marriage that if we allow it then essentially we have to normalize homosexuality into society completely. I said further that we all look at a man and woman or boy and girl holding hands and kissing in public etc and we find it touching and we smile, but what happens when we see two men doing the same? What happens when tv commercials, greeting cards, magazine advertising, proms, childrens textbooks, etc all have images of homosexuality?
He didn’t like that idea at all. So, what we have is a lot of people supporting gay marriage who have not given it much thought, or somehow believe that it won’t fundamentally change the landscape of society in an unpleasant way.
Fools!
What we really need to do is pull the rug out from under the homos. Let them have the word marriage, we just need to come up with another name, like sanctified union, and redefine marriage as something indecent that they are welcome to keep. I mean, Obambi changed the word terrorist by fiat, why not turn the tables?
If they’ve corrupted the word marriage to be an abomination, let them have it.
For one solitary sodomite judge to overrule the will of 7,000,000 voters is beyond belief. Every civil service job has a process for removing mentally unstable employees. I guarantee there is a procedure for removing this jerk from office. He is obviously suffering from some kind of dementia.
This judge violated the civil rights of every single person who voted. He decided that voting means nothing, violating the 15th and 26th Amendments to the US Constitution.
Moonbeam Brown and Gov. Brain Tumor refused to defend the constitutional amendment the first time, so I don’t see how the true defenders of Prop 8 don’t have standing to appeal. This is such a clear case of overt demoralization by the perverts, this opinion should immediately be nullified and new trail ordered. Any other one-sided political issue would have been trashed in a court of law a long ago.