Melissa Etheridge dropped by The View yesterday and got into a debate with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck over Proposition 8. Things got a bit heated so co-host Sherri Shepherd interrupted the two and calmed them down.
I completely agree with Melissa that the issue is about allowing two people who love each other to make the same legal protected declaration of commitment as their heterosexual counterparts. What's your take on Proposition 8?
– Bumble Bee
I believe that the “people” should not have a say in who I can or can not “marry”. In alot of things and applications, it doesn’t say “husband” or “wife” anymore, it says “spouse”. So I am asking, what is the big deal with heterosexual people trying to keep homosexual people from marrying the person they love? I honestly think that prop 8 passed because of the commercials promoting it. They were misleading and untruthful. And one other thing, the churches want to be exempt from paying taxes, but they also want to be able to give their input on politics, and I say, if they want to be able to have a voice in politics, they “must” pay their taxes just as every one else does.
Melissa Etheridge is another whining liberal dolt who can’t accept the fact that the majority of voters have spoken. So she’ll cry in her corner and not pay taxes…nice job, you big baby. Libs, you can blast religion all you want, but don’t think for a second that your Christian and non-Christian Democrat brothers and sisters didn’t contribute to the passing of Prop 8.
i completely agree with melissa etheridge’s (and thomas jefferson’s) argument about the rights of minorities being protected by the judicial branch from a purely democratic tally since, clearly, minorities cannot establish their own rights through this process. I’ve been saying it since I heard the appalling measure would be on the ballot. It is important to distinguish the ideals of liberty, freedom and justice from the mob-rule inherent to pure democracy, and place decisions of the highest ethical and moral importance above a standard that claims “if everybody says so, it must be true!”
and miguel, i don’t know where you come from, but u sound quite whiny to me, and im sure you’d be changing your tune if say, a majority of voters approved anything you had a hard time agreeing with, say, a constitutional amendment defining marriage being only between same-sex couples. i mean come on….flamer!