shortee:

I feel like this man is just trying to teach the people who voted yes on Prop 8 a lesson in civil rights.  Of course the proposition would still allow annulments, as well as have other special circumstances such as infidelity, spousal abuse, abandonment, etc. 

The passing of Prop 8 to ban gay marriage was because people want to “protect traditional marriage” and yet the US divorce rate is 47.9 percent, but does not include six states, which consists of the state of California. People with strong religious beliefs say gay marriage is not allowed according to the Bible. The Bible also mentions it is wrong to divorce. Maintain “traditional marriage”? 

With such a high divorce rate, it seems like less and less people are not taking this whole marriage thing seriously. People get married, with the option in the back of their minds that it’s okay if things go wrong because you can always get a divorce.

Last week, as I was driving my grandmother to an appointment, she began expressing her concerns for my mother and father and their relationship and basically how their marriage is going down the drain.

She told me that she got married at the age of 15 to my grandfather. She did not want to marry. She wanted to finish school and become a nurse. But she was forced into marriage. Despite the circumstances, she upheld her vows and remained with that man for decades, and still to this day. Every time they had issues, they would sit down and just talk about the matter until there was a resolution. No screaming or shouting, or exchanging of insults or bad words. They struggled, but what relationship doesn’t?

It seems like nowadays, when relationships hit a snag or a bump in the road, people find it easier to run away from it rather than take it head on.`How can it be that we have come to live in a world where a person no longer wants to compromise or maintain a relationship with some trials and tribulations, and would rather drop it all and give up altogether?

“Another flaw in the human character is that everyone wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” - Kurt Vonnegut

So eager to move on to the next thing and go straight to the top rather than slowing your pace to create a strong foundation. It’s like a pyramid: if you don’t build a strong foundation, once that foundation breaks, everything you have built on top of it will collapse. 

Anyways, back to the main issue. I’m not going to take sides on this debate. The people of California can learn a good lesson if divorce was made illegal. But if it’s made illegal out of spite of the passing of Prop 8, isn’t that stooping down to their level?

I support Civil Rights, common sense, and moral values.

Where do you stand?

Just some food for thought.

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