This past week, Q-line asked: Do you support the state’s official sanctioning of gay marriages, or do you feel our elected leaders are off track? Why?
Here are your responses: ✆ “I do not have any quarrel with female lesbians and male homosexuals hooking up and having the same legal rights as any partnership. However, I do not feel it should be referred to as a marriage. I feel this form of relationship should be labeled a ‘mating.’ Mating is very much the same as marriage, still there is a difference in the composition of the partnership. This approach to labeling would eliminate almost all deception.” ✆ “I certainly do not support such a ludicrous thing as gay marriage. Our lawmakers are way off base, succumbing once again to a certain segment of the population’s pressure — a group that over the past few years who have become all too powerful and vocal. They should have stayed in the closet. Now we get homosexuality shoved down our throat at every turn. The legitimizing of this behavior does nothing but demean and dilute the real meaning of marriage and is appalling.” ✆ “If the gays want to get married, let them get married. Why the hell should we trust politicians? You know they are all corrupt. I mean, look at the mess in New Orleans. Look at the politicians we have sitting on the City Council. My God, put all their brains in a nutshell and they would still rattle. I mean, Christ, life is what it is. People should be allowed to do what they want to do.” ✆ “Legalizing homosexual marriages is just plain wrong. The homosexuals and their friends are just going to have to accept the fact that most people think they are perverts. What a couple of perverts do, as long as they are both adults, in the privacy of their own home is their business. They can do what they want, they can do it all night if they want, I really don’t care. But legalizing it in marriage is going to force employers to start providing health benefits to perverts’ boyfriends or their same sex spouses or whatever you want to call them and that’s wrong. What if an employer doesn’t want to? Then they are going to start saying, ‘Oh, I’m not going to hire any homosexuals,’ and that’s kind of wrong too because they have the same right to work as anybody else. It shouldn’t matter they’re homosexual if you’re going to hire somebody unless you’re hiring a prostitute and that’s illegal anyway. So why don’t they just do what they want in private and stop forcing everybody else to accept it, recognize it, and subsidize it.” ✆ “With all the pressing problems in our state, spending time on this utter nonsense is mind boggling. If people want to indulge in deviant behavior, let them do so. But don’t ask us to legalize this craziness to make them feel better about themselves.” ✆ “I absolutely support the state’s officials sanctioning of gay marriages. I think we have more to worry about than when people want to commit themselves to marriage.” ✆ “Even though I am not exactly gay, I have been happily married for many years. I am firmly convinced because I had some friends and one of the grandchildren turned out to be gay and I think it’s part of their hormonal development or structure and this person came from a famous family in Carmel. So, I really think even though I don’t particularly care for that lifestyle because I have a gorgeous son that has attended school in Santa Monica and I attended UCLA, I am firmly convinced after having taken some courses that it is written in the genetic code.” ✆ “I believe they (the state officials) are off track and I believe that God created Adam and Eve. He didn’t create an Adam and Steve. But everybody says, ‘Oh, you should be like Jesus, you know Jesus loved everybody, even the woman with adultery who committed sins.’ That’s my viewpoint, anybody else, I’d like to hear from them too.” ✆ “Here is another attack on American and Christian values by those who hate America. These values have been the backbone of societies for the past 2,000 years. It’s all about the money. Gays can get power of attorney to support the estates of their partner. In regards to civil unions, a great number of businesses accept them for insurance purposes to ensure a partner. But if a company doesn’t accept that, you know when you go to work for that business. Why would you want to force an owner, who for religious or other reasons does not want to support homosexuality? What about his rights? As for IRS deductions, how about supporting a flat tax? That way everybody pays fairly, not just married people or single or businesses. This argument for gay marriage is made by a now decrepit democratic party to use a minority to further their bankrupt political agenda. These ideas originate from East Coast elites, anti-economic powerhouses, and bastions of political correctness and hate speech states like Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, and home to that failed lifeguard Senator Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts. The democratic party is duping gays to support ideas that corrode the foundations of America in return for monetary support and forced acceptance of their lifestyle. I don’t know what is worse, the 30-year decline of the once great Democratic party or the evident effect on Santa Monica.” ✆ “Marriage should be a private concern between two consenting adults. Why should either gays or straights care if Schwarzenegger or Bush sanction their marriage? Our over-bloated state and federal bureaucracy needs keep their big butts out of peoples’ private lives.” ✆ “Yes, I am against same-sex marriage because most states have passed things that are against it. They’re not good role models. Proposition 22 here was voted by the public. But of course a lot of these unelected judges go ahead and overturn everything that is done. Anyway, I think that they should not have it. There’s enough rights that they already have. So I am opposed to it, Proposition 22 is opposed to it, and many states in the Union are opposed to it. Basically, because they’re not good role models.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 10, 2005. Read the original PDF.