prop 8

I was looking at some of the pictures from a Prop. 8 protest. Some of the signs were plain stupid like this one:
"I want what chickens have: rights."
Oh yeah, like the right to die and be eaten. Those are just the type of rights I want; I get a comfy couch before my head is cut off.
Or this one: "Jesus would vote No on Prop. 8." Oh please, like any mortal would know what God would vote for, but a good indication of what God wanted might be displayed in the very fact that you are protesting the passing of Prop 8.

One of them was just plain scary: "Keep your church out of my state." In the middle of a anti-discrimination rally we find this sign; scary. I thought that the whole gay rights thing was supposed to be against discrimination, so why am I finding a sign that seems pretty discriminatory in that kind of rally? During the Civil Rights movement, I do not recall Martin Luther King saying that after blacks had equal rights, they were supposed to take away some of the rights of whites.
Besides that this sign sounded hateful. The other signs I disagreed with, scoffed at, or made me think, but this one horrified me and stunned me that on the streets of Sacremento, not that far away, someone would hold a sign like that. The media and President Bush would have us believe that terrorists are right on our doorstep, but why should I worry about those, when I have signs like that closer to home. Also our future/current president Obama has built his campaign upon the assumption that we can cause change, but it was never this one group can bring change. It was the whole group, all Americans, and that is the only way we can expect change of any kind; otherwise it's like pulling teeth.

You might as well know that I voted yes on Prop. 8; I could not in good conscience vote no on it. However, if you want civil unions, go ahead, but to call a relationship between two men or two women a marriage destroys what marriage has meant to millions of married couples throughout the centuries. It disgraces marriage, and I cannot agree or tolerate to dishonour and debase the essense of marriage when I hope to be joined into it.