Where does Gay Marriage rank in the Top 10 Reasons for Divorce?
On November 4, Californians will vote to amend the State Constitution, which currently allows the right of same-sex couples to marry. There will be no winners in this referendum. Whether the proposition succeeds or fails, we’ll all be diminished by it. That always happens when one group of people has the authority to take rights away from another. In California, gay couples have a right to marry. Prop 8 isn’t about preventing people from enjoying that right, it’s going to the unprecedented step of taking it away. It’s the equivalent of voting to take away a woman’s right to vote. It’s too bad we can’t get online and pull up a moral Mapquest. We could input the starting location (the corner of Rule and Law) and the ending location (the corner of Playing and God). We’d click the “Get Directions” button and see the quickest route: Proposition 8. Voting to take people’s rights away circumvents the rule of law. Actually, it does more than that—it transforms the law into a tool for persecuti
