Comments on: Pastors Urge “Yes” Vote On 2 To Define Marriage As Being A Man And Woman

By: William

William — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:35:01 +0000

Comments on this article are closed since the polls have closed.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:45:12 +0000

To all the posters with two Y chromasomes on here, sorry, you could’nt pursuade me to vote against it. To everyone else ….vote YES.

By: Darryl Hall

Darryl Hall — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:53:17 +0000

Voting yes to this amendment, although it seems just to define a word, is a slippery slope you do not want to proceed down. It lies counter to the basic principals of our country in both true religious freedom and to the Constitution’s ideal of all people being treated equally in the eyes of the government. I’ve heard many say this is a Christian nation and its laws are based on the Bible, but that isn’t true. Many of our forefathers were Christian, but so were some Diest (Diest didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus or the trinity), but together they saw the peril in establishing a religion in the Constitution. If we continue down the road of establishing particular religious beliefs on top of our basic Constitutional rights at some point, very quickly, we’ll have to decide which sect. Think about it: Would you want the government to establish a religion sect or denomination different from your own that establishes ritual or beliefs different than your own in matters of religion? This is what the Inquisition in Europe was all about. The Catholic Church trying to suppress expressions of belief different than that which they ordained. It lead to a very cruel and injust period of history.

The Bible, when used for persecution and injustice, has lead to extremely cruel and immoral acts of humanity, and we need to recognize these biases, even today and we try to deny basic human rights to our fellow citizens. Biological differences have in our own short history has drove us to our most immoral levels. Slavery and its many horrors, denying women equal status in society even as citizens, segregation and now differences based on gender and sexuality. It is a biological difference that is only recently been studied and in doing so has discovered a whole realm of variation in nature.

In summary, when discussing public policy, as harsh as it may sound, religious belief based on any particular sect or denomination is not to be used if it violates the beliefs of any other and if it violates the principal that all people are equal.

By: RD

RD — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:12:34 +0000

The opponents of Amendment 2 are making false claims that it will take away hospital visitation for unmarried couples. That is absurd. Florida law (F.S. 765.202) already gives every person the option of designating a health care surrogate. A unmarried couple can simply designate each other as health care surrogates. Amendment 2 will have no impact on domestic partnerships. The amendment does one thing – define marriage as between one man and one woman. That’s something that the vast majority of Floridians agree with. Vote yes on Amendment 2 !

By: Bam

Bam — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:18:05 +0000

Whatever happen to tolerance ?

You don’t mind having guns, which are used to kill but even forbid a person love someone. You can not tell your heart who to love and if it happens to be someone of the same sex, well who is to say its wrong.

The bible? What is the bible but a book written by men (Mark, Job, Paul) and edited by other men (The council of Nice) so that it may have power over other men. You wish to live your life dictated to, so be it, but you don’t have the right to tell others how they should live. The way they are living, is it hurting you? No, I think not.

By: Jon Dell

Jon Dell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:40:13 +0000

So what’s next? Would you supporters of amendment 2 like to roll back women’s rights also? Clearly the Bible shows women as being lesser than their male counterparts. Why should we give the inferior gender the same rights? While we’re at it we can roll back other civil rights. Let’s get rid of minority rights. Let’s do away with anything and everything that disagrees with the teachings of the Bible.

Why be a country of equality and individual rights when we can just segregate those that are different than us?

By: hlp

hlp — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:55:59 +0000

It is 2008. Live and let live. Really, how is SOMEONE ELSES sexual orientation DIRECTLY affect you? We are not here to judge. Why worry about what someone else does. Mind your own business.

By: BamaFAN

BamaFAN — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:42:44 +0000

Vote NO!!! You should have the right to marry whoever you want to!!!!!

By: ChurchandState

ChurchandState — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:07:38 +0000

VOTE NO

By: AW

AW — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:29:45 +0000

“Genesis 2:24: ““Have you not read, that he who created them from the beginning, made them male and female. And said for this reason a man shall leave his Father and Mother and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh? Consequently they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no man separate.”

This is what God intended on a marriage being, man AND wife (woman). We shouldn’t redefine it to best suit our needs or wants, God already defined it and that is good enough for me but we have to bring it in to law because of the way the world is going now. If a man wants to marry a man, or a woman to another woman, then they will have to answer for that on the day of judgement. It isn’t for us to judge. Now, I am not saying that I am voting “no”…because I am going to vote “yes” because I don’t want my children growing up in a state where it is ok for man and man or woman and woman to be together by marriage. How do you explain that to children? There has to come a point where we put God back in this country. Our Christian rights are being violated and revoked so that we don’t offend anyone that doesn’t believe, but what about how we as Christians feel, what about our rights?? We just sat back and watched as they took God out of schools because it offended someone, so now our children have to go to school and not say the pledge or pray because it might offend the kid next to them. Don’t you think the Christian children are offended because they can’t say the pledge or pray? Does anyone think of them? I think it’s time that Christians take a stand and fight back.