In California it is mandatory that parents be given the option to decline
health education for their children. Failure to do so would be a huge
disaster.

You out-of-staters are using California as your test case, so you can take
it to the other states. I'm not stupid, we know that. But even if you do
succeed, and I pray you don't, the Supreme Court will recognize it for the
discrimination that it is. If they even decide to hear it after the 9th
circuit strikes it down.

Didn't you wonder how school in California has been in session for over two months, now, while gay marriage has been legal, and nobody could find a similar story in California?

Or did you just not think it through that far?

I do not wish someone's alternative lifestyle — be it gay, swinging, what have you — in my face or my children's. It's that simple. And I demand the right to be free from that. As I have shown, many times in many places of this great country, that right has been knocked away.

I would also remind you that there is another group of people who would be outraged at a reference directed toward them as “you people.” Guess you're not that pc after all, and none of this is funny.

I am extremely disappointed in the lack of reasoning and the arguing in circles that I encounter. I am strengthened by the amazing good that has come from this: Christian groups have seen how much they have in common instead of what they haven't. There has been a coming together that is so uplifting and so inspirational. It crosses state lines and religious affiliations. I am honored and humbled to be a part of that. It feels like Christmas, and I hope it lasts for a long time.

This is my last post. Thank you everyone for reading. I hope I connected with you in some way and that you'll read this essay http://members.cox.net/mamaof4/index.shtml
Blessings.

Why is it so wrong to ask them not to perpetuate hate and discrimination? To open their eyes and minds that all people are created equally in the eyes of the law and should be treated as such.

As for parental rights, get yourself a clue. In the state of California, any parent can choose to opt their child out of any lesson that the parent objects to. It is the parents' right to do so. I'm sorry if paying attention to what your child is learning in school is too much work for you, but the public school system was not created to push your religious beliefs or hate agenda.

Also, so that we're clear: California does not have civil unions for homosexuals. It has registered domestic partnerships, which are NOT the same as a legal marriage nor are they equal in rights and protections, under the law. But since you're so convinced that it's the same thing as a legal marriage, maybe what we should do is end legal marriage entirely, and everyone can have a registered domestic partnership. Then we'll all be equals and gay folk won't be soiling your precious institution.

I think that children deserve parents, but not a mom and a dad, it has been irrevalent to me, My dad was pretty much gone while I grew up, from infancy to my current age, I met him a few times at 12, but he still was uninterested in me. He was more interested in his booze.

I think I have been happier, aside from one sad day a year, and a few days where the gap shows through, but from the few experiences I've had, I think I'm happier with being raised by my mother, MY mom also knows how it feels to grow up without a father. but was more affected. My grandfather, was kill din Vietnam in the 60's, a very celebrated fighter pilot, we have a box of medals of his honors. His body was never recovered, and they never got an opportunity for true closure. Every child deserves the right to succeed, and if that means not having a mommy and daddy like you say is “normal” than I must not have my rights, because my good-for-nothing father gives me no sympathy for your argument.

I have an uncle, form my Moms side who is gay, and he was deeply affected as a teenager with my Grandfathers death. He fell into a spiral of tough times, and soon came out of the closet. Speed up 15 years, and him and his partner have been together, for 15 years, and they still haven't gotten married. He has not been able to get a new job, due to descriminatrion. He is a normal, healthy, hard working successful person, and he deserves as much the right as the mommy and daddy kids deserve to live in the way you think they should, as my relative should be able to marry.

No on Proposition 8, in California, Keep rights for everyone.