Prop 8

Why do people feel the need to decide the fate of other's futures? What gives people the right to stop individuals who love each other from getting married? There has always been the argument that Blacks can now marry marry whites when it had been illegal in the past and that people will see enlightenment. Now, While I agree that this may predict the future for gay marriage I feel that the issue is not in who is being restricted but what is being restricted.

All humans have the right to freedom and when the government takes these rights away they are oppressing the individuals. When it is a group that is being oppressed it is like a hate crime performed by the government. Therefore, it is unconstitutional to restrict marriage. Marriage is moral issue and while some may disagree with the same-sex marriages they the government has no right to restrict the action. For instance, people hate such a wide variety of things like smoking or drinking but the law does not restrict these behaviors of individuals even when it is more than just a moral issue.

Marriage is based upon love (or at least it 'should' be). Why does the government have the right to restrict who an individual wishes to spend their life with? As a human being one should not care about who someone marries or who they choose not to marry. It is not their choice to make. They have the right to be upset and even vocalize it to an extent (as if we restricted their right to speak openly about their opinions it would be a violation of the second amendment). Therefore the government, as the marriage between any two individual harms no one but possibly the people being wed, has no right to even dictate who can and cannot be wed. The government should not have to right to involve itself into matrimony.

But this leads to many problems forcing the government, for its own sake as well as ours, to wedge itself into the lives of two people who lover each other. The government must keep track of who gets married to whom for the purposes of taxes and other financial reasons. And so that liars and cheats may not fake a marriage to get something that they think may benefit them the government must define what a marriage is. Here is where the problem begins. As homosexuality has been socially unacceptable until only recently (and it is still) the government has restricted marriage between to male and female. With the human rights movements in the 20th century homosexuality became more accepted and it became legal to have same-sex relationships.

I guess I got kind of off-track. So rather than about Proposition eight the is about the issue of gay marriage. And by all of this I mean to make the point that the government should not restrict who can and who cannot get married.