California’s Proposition 8: “This measure would amend the state constitution to specify that only marriages between one man and one woman would be recognized as valid in the state” (CNN).

I am not heartbroken over the fact that Proposition 8 passed in California, but by the number of people who voted in its favor.

What people are voting for is what’s scary: to take away the rights of others.

To vote in favor of this measure is to literally cast a vote to say that, somehow, a man and a woman together are entitled to more rights.

These are 5,376,424 people that are voting based on the fact that if you are a man or woman, and you are born attracted to the opposite sex, you are more entitled to marital rights than a homosexual man or woman, who equally had no choice in his or her own sexuality.

The majority of votes belonged to people that voted to abridge the rights of others simply based on who those people are. Homosexuals marrying would not affect heterosexual marriages in any way. No, these votes stemmed from an ancient text that says that, for whatever reason, heterosexuals deserve one more freedom than everyone else.

52% of voters believe that one single, predetermined trait is reason enough to disenfranchise fellow citizens of one of their rights… a right which they themselves are fully privileged to utilize and realize the importance of.

Is it not difficult to comprehend that on the night of Obama’s presidency, 70% of African American voters voted to take away the rights of homosexual Californians?

To cast a vote for Proposition 8 is truly to say to a homosexual: “You are not my equal citizen, based on your innate sexuality.”

Did these people ask themselves: “Would I want someone else voting to take away my rights?” I find it hard to believe that they did; otherwise, I think the result of the vote on Proposition 8 would have turned out far less frightening.

I will end with a quote from the 14th Amendment, from the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property…”

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