NO on Prop 8
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"The separation of church and state is vastly misunderstood. The intention was never to keep the church from getting involved in politics. It was to prevent the government from using the church as it's vehicle and puppet. The idea was to keep the government out of churches."
- designbotFlawed. Nice try though. You seem to forget that America was a British colony, you know Britian, right? The one where the head of state and the head of the church where one and the same when good old king Henry VIII needed more sperm receptacles and that bastard the Pope wouldn't let him? You know that country that saw a century or two of bloodshed and hate between the Church of England and the Catholics by having the government and religion be one and the same? By insuring religious tests for positions of power? Yeah. That Britian. The Founders didn't like that so much. Because their was no way to tell who was puppet and who was master in that particular scenario.
The intention was to keep religion way over there and politics way over here and pray the twain wouldn't meet, other than the occasional generic "May god have mercy on our souls..." and other idle meaningless pleasantries.
- Sorry...don't want to get into the religious thing..back to homosexuals getting married.TheBlueOne