Attempt to overturn Prop 8 - Tail wagging the dog again?

Hi folks,
I suppose that I'm going to take a lot of heat on this one, but I have to speak my mind. There is a group that is currently trying to gather enough votes to try to overturn Prop 8, the "anti-gay" marriage bill, and they have been told by the California Attorney General, in so many words, that he will do as much as he can to help. This is ridiculous. I know that the gay/lesbian community claims that Prop 8 denies them rights but I just don't see it. Where is the evidence? What are the denied rights, other than the fact that they don't have something called a marriage certificate? I am tired of the attacks on marriage as defined in the Bible as the union between a man and a woman. For that matter, I am tired of the attacks on the Bible and Christianity for its stand on marriage and on alternate lifestyles. The marriage issue has been raised and voted upon multiple times and the result has been the same each time, though it has turned into a closer fight than in the past. Why? Because more people are sympathetic to the gay/lesbian community? I don't think so. Like so many other issues, I believe that those people who have in the past voted in favor of legislation like Prop 8 have tired of the fight to defend traditional marriage, or have perhaps been fooled into thinking that it simply doesn't matter anymore. But it DOES matter, especially when there is the distinct possibility that the gay/lesbian lifestyle will not only be taught in school but also that it will be promoted, as in the case of the children several months ago who were brought to a lesbian wedding.

I can guess that by my writing this blog I will be termed a "homophobe" or some other equally obnoxious term. So be it. I have absolutely nothing against gay or lesbian individuals and have had many as good friends my whole life, but I do have a problem with the relentless attacks against traditional marriage, as well as growing legislation that makes it harder and harder to speak my mind without running the risk of being accused of "hate speech" or bigotry, yet people who oppose my views can seemingly say just about anything they wish either to me or about me and I have no recourse. Not only that, but when the Prop 22 campaign was on, several signs in my front yard were vandalized. Prop 22 was the one before Prop 8. The vandalism was so bad that I finally had to post a sign about 15 feet up in a pine tree and literally cover it with heavy wire so that it couldn't be taken down, and even then someone tried to rip up the sign. So much for "free speech".

If I'm not mistaken, something like 37 states have already voted to endorse traditional marriage, and there is the distinct possibility that that number will increase. What the gay/lesbian community doesn't seem to realize, or maybe care about, are the other, more bizarre groups who are just waiting to get their foot in the door when/if more liberal legislation overturns traditional marriage. Also, it is not right, nor is it legal, for a minority to impose its will upon the majority, and the majority clearly supports traditional marriage and the values that go along with it.

The gay/lesbian marriage advocates have plead their case multiple times and they have been voted down multiple times. It is time to move on and leave the issue alone, but I doubt that it will be left alone and that is a shame. As I said before, I have absolutely nothing against the gay/lesbian community, but I do have a problem with the attacks on traditional marriage and the heterosexual lifestyle. If I have offended anyone with this post, I'm sorry but I have to speak my mind and I believe that I have done so in a respectful manner. If anyone wishes to take issue with what i have said, they are free to do so, and as long as it is done in a respectful manner, they have my word that their post will not be deleted.

Art