Possible divorce ban in CA

[Thyestean]

Marriage is defined as many things, among them a sacrement. The government should have nothing to do with sacrements. Thus my preference for the term "civil union" regardless of who's marrying whom. In many European countries, couples have their relationship recognized by their government through a civil union and then have that union blessed by the church of their choice in a marriage sacrement. And yes, it is within the power of that church to deny someone the sacrement of marriage.

That makes sense and would seem the smarter way to go with it. Then none of these gay marriage laws would be an issue. I'm sure some people would still take exception to churches denying their sacrament ("marriage") but at least then it would be the churches problem and not yet another trivial thing for the government to waste time and money on. And really shouldn't even be an issue there either since I would think any self respecting person with half a brain wouldn't care about a sacrament approved by a group of people who are foolish enough to think they have the right to tell people what is and isn't "moral"(acceptable).

 

[Darmeen]

I am getting really tired of the term racist...there is only one race...and it is the human race...to be a racist is to be bi-polar and hate yourself.

I didn't vote for Obama because I didn't believe his positions, and it had ZERO to do with the color of his skin...and I find it incredibly hypocritical of those that kept going on and on about how we had a black president and celebrating it...MLK said it himself that his kids be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. He wanted the tone of someone's skin to be removed for judging someone. For those that celebrated a black president continued to diminish the accomplishment, imo.

Until we as a race can truly forget the skin tone, we will always be divided. We all bleed the same, we all feel love the same.

Now, I am not suggesting that the cultures should go away, but the 'racial' part should be removed. On forms where it asks what my race is, I am forced to pick other as they don't list human as a possible choice.

As for banning divorce, it simply would not happen...even if they found enough people to sign the petition, that doesn't make it law...