oskibear wrote:From LA Times:
70% of African Americans backed Prop. 8, exit poll finds
12:10 PM, November 5, 2008A lot of Obama/Yes-on-8 voters? The Associated Press exit polls show that African Americans and Latinos backed Proposition 8 in good numbers. Details here from AP:
California's black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, also provided key support in favor of the state's same-sex marriage ban. Seven in 10 black voters backed a successful ballot measure to overturn the California Supreme Court's May decision allowing same-sex marriage, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.
More than half of Latino voters supported Proposition 8, while whites were split. Religious groups led the tightly organized campaign for the measure, and religious voters were decisive in getting it passed. Of the seven in 10 voters who described themselves as Christian, two-thirds backed the initiative. Married voters and voters with children strongly supported Proposition 8. Unmarried voters were heavily opposed.
hispanics said no because of their catholic/religious backgrounds. we all know the man upstairs is gonna start hurling lightning bolts at everyone for letting gays get married. blacks said no because there's a cultural stigma against gays. men are supposed to be manly men and pimp women and have lots of kids. because the number of kids a black man has reflects positively on the man. and gays can't naturally have children.
ok maybe i didn't say that the right way but just pretend i did. i learned this from a book or journal or school or something.
changing the name isn't going to solve anything. Homosexuals won't accept and it (they already have domenstic partnerships in california, but they still want to be 'married', ie. Prop 8) and the the religous side will still oppose it no matter what its called.
This is just one of those things where one side wants to make the other side miserable and vice versa, happens all the time, better to just not get involved.
Rhox wrote:
wtghaha wrote:changing the name isn't going to solve anything. Homosexuals won't accept and it (they already have domenstic partnerships in california, but they still want to be 'married', ie. Prop 8) and the the religous side will still oppose it no matter what its called.
This is just one of those things where one side wants to make the other side miserable and vice versa, happens all the time, better to just not get involved.
you sound like you know exactly what gay people want.. oh..
yes...they want to be able to marry
I have a feeling that most gays/lesbians don't want to get 'married' for those 5-6 minor differences between a domestic partnership and marriage. They want to be recognized as being 'married' in the social aspect of the word. This isn't a fight for a few minor rights that domestic partnerships don't grant (most probably don't even know of these minor differences).
Changing the word used in our laws isn't goiong to suddenly make everyone change the meaning or usage of the word. Heterosexuals will still use the term 'married' and homosexuals will want to be able to say the same thing, not 'Hi i'm civil unionized with this person'.
