One Judge vs 7 million votes

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Under Prop 8 marriage was defined as a union between a man and a woman.

But do voters have the right to make that distinction for others? Is that a natural distinction or an artificial one. If the purpose of marriage is itself, as the ancient Greeks believed, to force a man and a woman into an "unnatural" alliance in order to produce and then protect the children, then marriage is a legal contract that must be between one man and one woman. If it's between two people who want to legally commit to each other, then why is it up to you, or seven million others, to say they may not.

The very act of defining marriage as being between one man and one woman is discrimination against anyone who feels otherwise and is thereby excluded. Enforcing that definition is indeed denying equality.