Our California Constitution, the law of our land, should guarantee the same freedoms and rights to everyone. No one group should be singled out to be treated differently.
In the past, amendments have been added to increase civil liberties, not deny rights.
The government has no business telling people who can and cannot get married. Regardless of what you think about marriage, it doesn't affect us in any way if others are allowed to get married. It does affect us when any group is singled out to be denied rights; when any one group is singled out, it hurts us in a very real way. America cannot pretend to be the land of the free when we deny fundamental rights.
Let's be honest with ourselves: The freedom to marry is fundamental to our society, just like the freedoms of religion and speech.
I pray that, for California's sake, we defeat Proposition 8.
-- Lindsay Roberts, Thousand Oaks