I just returned home from a week in Florida. Florida has a proposition on the ballot in November to amend the Florida Constitution to ban same sex marriages and further to prevent judges from overturning the law. To me, this is yet another example of attempts by misguided, uninformed, and just plain mean individuals to force their moral/religious beliefs on the rest of society through legislation.
What could it possibly matter to anyone else whether two men or two women marry each other. It's one of those things that a person might find objectionable for themselves, but if it is, they simply don't have to do it. If someone else wants to do it, who cares? It's no one else's business! Same sex marriages don't hurt anyone, they don't threaten anyone, and the people involved generally don't try and convince heterosexual individuals to become homosexuals.
Homosexuals are a part of life. They are simply individuals who are built the way they are for any variety of reasons. Most of them can't help what they are any more than you can help what you are. Most of them are not bad people and many of them are smart, caring, good people who are contributing to society. They are not bad because they are homosexual and they don't deserve to be punished. And, there is no reason why they should not have the same protections legally, financially, and every other way that married heterosexual people have.
The proposition in Florida is an issue that is not a legal issue and therefore should not be on the ballot. Similar propositions and laws in other states need to be eliminated also because they are not issues our legislatures should be involved in. I don't want my representatives making laws that hurt anyone. If you don't like homosexuality don't become one and don't associate with them.
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