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# Residents split over same-sex marriage as Schwarzenegger weighs veto
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/q-line-from-page-6/
- Published: 2005-09-10T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:46:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

✆ “I support the state’s sanctioning of gay marriages and feel that they are right on track.” ✆ “I am not supporting same-sex marriage. I do not agree with the state’s decision. This is against God’s law, against peoples’ law, against our decision in election.” ✆ “The elective leaders are way off track with proposing that gays and lesbians are able to marry like others. This is not their prerogative according to all dictums of the United States and its heritage. Their prerogative is to have civil unions that would entitle them to the financial benefits that they are ambitiously seeking.” ✆ “I do support the sanctioning of gay marriages. I believe that this country is not just for Protestant, white males who are straight, but for everybody. Men, women of all colors and countries and gays and straights and everyone should have the right under the law to the same thing. The one judge in California said that it was unconstitutional to deny gays this right and I agree. And also, it’s very funny that Governor Schwarzenegger says he will veto it because he’s upholding the peoples’ choice when the badly worded Proposition 22 against gay marriages narrowly passed. However, he’s not so conscientious about Prop. 98, giving our schools the money is he?” ✆ “I do not support same-sex marriage.” ✆ “Marriages are sanctioned by God between a man and a woman. Marriages between men and marriages between women who are gay are also wrong and in judgment by God. All the evil is why all the chaos is in the world. The terrorism, all the evil, because people won’t listen to God. Listen and obey, trust and obey, it’s the only way.” ✆ “I feel that we have a long history of having a marriage between a man and a woman and I think that that should be maintained for the purpose of family. I think other families can join. I believe people of same sex should have the right to have legal contracts so there is no issue about discrimination on that part. But the word marriage, and the rights and benefits between a man and woman for raising children should be reserved and the legislature should not have done what they did.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 10, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)