California's proposition 8 is a very important issue to me. It will define how we see marriage, whether it should be between man and woman, or if it can be between a man and man or a woman and a woman. I think the rest of the country will follow suit to how California votes.
I have a traditional marriage to a wonderful man and I believe marriage should be kept that way. My visiting teacher visited last Sunday and told me about what happened in Massachusetts when gay marriage became legal there. First of all, her children came home from school with a book to read called "The King and the King" about gays. They taught gay relationships in second grade. Schools already teach sexual education if California fails to pass proposition 8 they will add gay relationships to the sexual education. Also in Mass. (according to my visiting teacher) they told the Catholic adoption agency they had to give so many children to homosexual parents and when the agency refused the government shut it down saying it was "unconstitutional." I realized the affects of not voting for proposition 8 affects alot more then just if some people can get married or not. I do not look down on gays or think poorly of them, but I would not want my son learning about it in second grade at school either. Some things should be left to parents to teach. Marriage is important and sacred, children deserve to be born into families where parents have made a true commitment. That's how marriage is soppose to be a commitment. Children also learn best if they have a mother and father to teach them, that is why it takes a man and woman to have children.
In conclusion, vote yes to proposition 8.
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Those facts about Mass. are very scary. I've heard about other family's experiences there as well and it just makes me worry about the future. Parent's rights have definitely become diminished in Mass.
Wow. I had no clue it got that bad. My big problem with it is I think that it will only ensure our society's downfall, and we are already having problems. How much worse can it get? I don't want to know. I do know that homosexual relationships violate the law of chastity just as any premarital sex does. For the government to come in and mislead these people into believing that they can be married and thus finding a loop hole in the chastity issue, is just wrong. Marriage is ordained of God, and no matter what the government says, he clearly won't ordain that marriage. That is when marriage becomes just a cheap piece of paper. Next thing, I could marry a duck, several of them.
I had a discussion with my Visiting teachee and my companion today. We came to the conclusion that we need to stand for what we believe in, that is our part, like what Rebekah is doing so well where it counts the most. However the world is going to do as it pleases. We know how things are going to get worse and worse. All we can do is our best with ourselves and teaching our kids. We have a friend who is homosexual and while I know what he is doing is wrong, I feel his frustrations too.What a confusing world this is.At times like this I am so thankful for the gospel. With it, otherwise gray areas are a much clearer black and white
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