California Proposition 8

California Proposition 8 is a bigoted attempt to restrict freedoms.

I’m all for freedom of speech, no matter how hateful or stupid it is. In most cases, most of us rationalists, atheists, humanists, and agnostics would rather leave religious zealots alone to spout their delusional rhetoric. However, now some of these people have used this freedom of speech to take away the basic fundamental rights of others.

To any religious fuckwits that voted to pass proposition 8, do you really think that having gay marriage mentioned in our children’s schools will turn them gay? The fear that your religious leaders instilled into you to vote yes was unwarranted and should have opened your eyes to the manipulative tactics that con-artists use to control you. Your “traditional” marriage was never threatened, only your belief that you have a religious justification to discriminate is the real issue. It’s none of your business what other people do.

Organized religions and religious leaders, you are free to decline marrying people within your belief systems for whatever reason, but it is none of your business what people do outside of your belief system. Stop trying to make everyone else bow to your version of god.

For those of you of same sex that wish to marry and yet your church will not, then go to an open-minded justice of the peace or captain of a ship or some other belief system that will perform the ceremony, since that is all it is, a ceremony to celebrate your union.

To all those people that believe that your god hates same-sex encounters/unions, then sure, the figment of your imagination that you call “God” really does hate them, but that simply makes you a bigot. Organized (read disorganized) religions do not have control over, or a monopoly on, or even a say as to what consenting people do with each other or if they want to legally contract as life partners in marriage. Continue to live that limited, closed-ended lifestyle for yourselves and stay the hell out of everyone else’s business.

And to the government. You too should stay the hell out of affairs that are not directly related to the safety of the people. There are too many biased laws in place that treat married people and single people differently. It’s time to strip away the useless and bigoted parts of government.