What are the Yes-Voters of 'Proposition 8' about?
I wrote about 'Proposition 8' in California in my last Blog Entry.
Especially the young people will wonder now: "Why should anyone vote "Yes" on this proposition? Why should we not tolerate same-sex-marriages?"
Well, the strongest supporters of 'Prop. 8', which says that a marriage can only be between a man and a woman, are the churches.
Their argument is clear: The marriage as a holy union, should not be touched by a governmental law. Quite a good argument, because this does not directly attack the homosexuals, which might be too offensive.
Many churches in California do not want to see the holy union of marriage touched by governmental laws and suggest another type of union "which will not interfere with one's freedom of religion".
The main issue is the separation of state and church - which is completely understandable.
Here is a YouTube video, which tries to explain a 'non-religious' point-of-view.
The video was viewed almost 110,000 times, which shows how effective it is to publish this information as a way to gather grass-root participation and information for or against of these political issues.
The most important thing is, that not every "YES" voter is a fundamental member of a church. To many "Yes" voters "Proposition 8" is a question of definition of "marriage" in the traditional sense. They do support the established laws (297.5) and the same-sex-relationships, but also want to keep the union "marriage" reserved for a man-woman-union.
I wrote about 'Proposition 8' in California in my last Blog Entry.
Especially the young people will wonder now: "Why should anyone vote "Yes" on this proposition? Why should we not tolerate same-sex-marriages?"
Well, the strongest supporters of 'Prop. 8', which says that a marriage can only be between a man and a woman, are the churches.
Their argument is clear: The marriage as a holy union, should not be touched by a governmental law. Quite a good argument, because this does not directly attack the homosexuals, which might be too offensive.
Many churches in California do not want to see the holy union of marriage touched by governmental laws and suggest another type of union "which will not interfere with one's freedom of religion".
The main issue is the separation of state and church - which is completely understandable.
Here is a YouTube video, which tries to explain a 'non-religious' point-of-view.
The video was viewed almost 110,000 times, which shows how effective it is to publish this information as a way to gather grass-root participation and information for or against of these political issues.
The most important thing is, that not every "YES" voter is a fundamental member of a church. To many "Yes" voters "Proposition 8" is a question of definition of "marriage" in the traditional sense. They do support the established laws (297.5) and the same-sex-relationships, but also want to keep the union "marriage" reserved for a man-woman-union.
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