The Opposition Reacts to CA Ruling

[joel304]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/15/MNG8VBPIKO1.DTL

 

"chalking it up to judicial activism, citing the Bible for support and saying they're sure to prevail if California voters are given a choice on the issue"

 

Citing the Bible for support!!!!!!!! When did we start deferring legal decisions to religious writings. I better get my stones ready.

 

"Deuteronomy 13:6-11 "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him; but you shall kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you."

 

 

"A bedrock social issue such as marriage "should be decided by the American voters, not by the court," said Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the Republican Party of Contra Costa and president of California's county Republican chairs. "A decision about such an important societal institution shouldn't be in the hands of one, two or even nine judges.""

 

 

Social issues SHOULD be decided by courts. Many slaves and segregation opponents might agree.

 

 

 

"While same-sex couples view marriage as a civil rights issue, religious activists say they look to a higher authority. They include Thomas Wang, an evangelical pastor in Mountain View, who said, "Freedom doesn't mean freedom to do anything. If that happens, then there is chaos.

 

"If this is unconstitutional, there is another constitution to answer to, and that is the word of God," said Wang, who organized a 7,000-person rally in San Francisco's Sunset District last April against the legalization of same- sex marriage."

 

 

Wang better hope the Muslims don't take over. In his view, they would have the authority of their higher power to suppress him. This is why we don't turn to religious doctrine to decide our societal rules. Fucking idiot.

 

 

"If everyone in the world would follow the same-sex pattern, then there would be genocide," said Wang, who heads the Great Commission Center International, a missionary organization, in Mountain View.""

 

 

Need I say anything??? He really is an idiot. Now that it's legal, everybody's gonna do it. Yeah .... like pot. Fucking idiot.

 

 

""People say that if people are in love they should be able to get married. But what if they are brothers? Or a father and a daughter?""

 

 

Again ... Fucking idiot!!!!!!!