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‘Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.’ ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
Within my own lifetime it was once illegal for a couple of mixed races to marry. Today that concept is almost unheard of. No state or federal law would challenge, based solely on race, whether two adults ~ one white, one African American, or Asian, or Hispanic ~ could marry, and become husband and wife.
During November’s general election, Florida voters are being asked to decide whether a similar restriction should be made a permanent amendment to the State Constitution, limiting who can be legal spouses to ‘one man, one woman,’ effectively disenfranchising hundreds, if not thousands, of committed couples in the state.
I am suspending my self-imposed ban on political stances.
I do not believe it should be the purview of the state, or even federal government to put prerequisites on who someone can love, who can be named as a beneficiary, who has the right to make life-sustaining decisions, or who can be domestic partners in the eyes of the law ~ with all the rights inherent in such a partnership, including adoption. It most certainly should not be a line item in the State Constitution.
The semantics of the word ‘marriage’ should be taken out of the equation. If ‘marriage’ is to be considered a religious rite between ‘one man, one woman’, let it remain as such. But, two adults in a loving, nurturing, mutually beneficial relationship should be able to have their domestic union legally recognized as much as mine is, regardless of sexual orientation.
I voted ‘No’ against No. 2 Constitutional Amendment, Article 1, New Section.
‘This amendment protects marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and provides that no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.’ ~ page 8 of Sample Ballot, Okaloosa County, Florida Marriage Protection Amendment - No. 2, Article 1, Nov. 4, 2008 General Election.
October 25, 2008 |
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sjoukes, Women October 29, 2008 4:27 am
well done you…live and let live ..and do as you would be done by..why are some people so rigid and unforgiving and holier than thou and can’t see further than their nose…Hmph