I understand where your coming from and I feel your pain. I am not against Gays in any way, shape or form. I am against the Supreme Court ruling on an issue that affects the Majority in favour of the Minority! I have Gay friends and value their friendships. It is the way this issue was mishandled that ires many.

To give Gays the right to marry it is not necessary to change the wording of the Marriage Certificate! It is not necessary to remove the word Husband, Wife, Father, Mother. It is not necessary to have the same marriage certificate used for centuries adopted to fit our Gay society. They could have issued and instated another marriage certificate legaizing these unions and would allow the majority to
maintain the marriage certificate that has been in force for centuries!

It is the crass, indifference, injust measures used by the Supreme Court that has caused this issue to be a volatile debate. It is not hatred towards Gays that is at the core of this issue for me. It is the sacristy of marriage that the majority still feel attached to and hold dear that has instigated this uproar! And the Supreme Court should have embodied more respect for those they knew believe Marriage to be a Sacred Union. Regardless of the Divorce Rates, Broken Homes, etc. it is a State of Union and Sacred Union that has been recognized as such for centuries. The Supreme Court is way out of line and way off the map. They've driven a rod through Democracy instead of finding a solution that would have been acceptable to all.

It might be just semantics to you but it is not just semantics to the majority! It is a legal union of a man and a woman and what has always been a union blessed by God and State, for the purpose of sharing a life together and PRODUCING off spring.

It is a union that has been a state of societies since the beginning of time. It is a family union and bond that cements societies as communities and a part of the whole.

What the HEY has our world come to when a Court of a few men and women can dismantle in a day what has been in force for centuries?
And what the HEY has our world come to when a minority of people have the right to strip away the fabric of families across a Nation to appease their will?

SEMANTICS! It's the will of a few stripping away the rights of the masses that have been in force for centuries, all for their own personal gain, satisfaction and need to be included ! So let's just reword, reassemble, reassess, totally revamp this century old state of union so it reads, implies, ascertains what the minority feel comfortable with and let the Majority pound sand if they don't like it!
You better beware people. If the Supreme can rule on this they will rule on every other fabric of your lives at their will!

Well the sky did not fall in Massachusetts in the years since gay weddings have been legal. They still have the lowest divorce rate in the nation– much lower than ANY of the Bible belt states. Has anyone heard even one straight couple say "Well we just don't want to get married anymore, since 'those people' are allowed to!"

Gay marriage does NOTHING at all to the institution of marriage, other than bring ten more percent of the population into the circle. The religious wingnuts, like John Hagee and Pat Robertson, are puzzled as to why the rest of us are not paying them attention anymore. They don't even realize how insane they sound and what a joke they've become to everyone when they said things like Katrina was God's wrath for New Orleans' gay pride, and too many crackpot statements to list here.

I'm just so proud to call California home. And hey, my partner of 27 years and I will be getting married soon, and you're all invited! Maybe more people will come to understand that it's about people falling in love with each other, that being gay is not all about sex. We have the same emotions you have and our love is every bit as strong and beautiful as yours.

Congrads to all my California friends who will be married today, after years of fighting and struggle.

Gordon Richardson, and embarrassed Californian

Look, I'm straight, I'm in the Army, I'm an Alpha Male. And I simply do not care what other people do in their own beds, as long as their doing it with consenting, mentally competant adults.

Isn't that freedom? Isn't that America?

Or are we to bow to bedroom Nazis?

There is NOTHING in the Constitution about marriage. And those who have problems with gay marriage have problems due to, mostly , their religious beliefs.

Well, guess what. If religious belief were law, we'd be like...Afghanistan.

I am disgusted with all these religious and right-wing freaks who somehow claim that THEY are really what America is all about, when in fact what they are for is THEOCRACY.

Live and let live, good people.

I'm glad some Republicans care about equal rights for all. Good for them.

Congratulations to all who wish to and now can marry.

If you though that every vote should have been recounted in Florida during the last couple of elections, lets take a look at this situation. The vote is clearly in the majority in one direction and it is overturned. Will this set a precedent for the future?

The state of California should be concerned with way more than just gay marriage! These rulings are unjustly brought against the will of the people. Its not politically driven or they would side with the majority. What other hidden agendas do they have?

If all is required for marriage is for people to love each other in a commited relationship, heck why stop there!! Let polgamy reign!!!

Shoot, if a mother wants to marry her son, a grandfather to his granddaughter/grandson, according to the logic behind gay marriage, that's OK too!!

The same phrases have been used to discriminate time and time again in a nation that prides itself on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Activist judges had to force the majority in many states to end Segregation and allow Interracial Marriage.

I don't even know any homosexuals, but I know right from wrong. The majority takes a long time to figure it out.

As for courts who override the demands of the electorate, there was a day when the Supreme Court told white voters in some states they couldn't have apartheid anymore (we didn't call it that, but that's what we called it in South Africa thirty years later). Now those courts look courageous and smart.

You can keep your country club. Your David Duke way of thinking will get you no where. Incidentally, David Duke is a Republican everyone.