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Religious Leaders Support Cordoba House, Denounce Growing Anti-Muslim Sentiment

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Aceofwhat?8/12/2010 1:08:36 pm PDT

re: #65 Dreggas

the case did demonstrate that there were few valid reasons to support prop. 8 save for fear and bigotry. I bet many voted out of fear, regardless of how rational that fear was but I would also bet the majority voted because of a dislike of gay people due to religious intolerance.

IIRC, though, Prop 8 was largely symbolic. it did not prevent the state from granting actual helpful rights to gays, rights that i believe they should have. it simply reserved the symbolic term, ‘marriage’, for its original symbolic meaning. there is something unique, though, about heterosexual marriage. not everyone who wants to preserve a unique symbol for a unique relationship does so out of fear and bigotry.