most of you that know me, know that i really don't care much about voting. the only time i ever voted was that one time i voted for bush simply because there was something about kerry that i really really didn't like. didn't like enough to register my apathetic ass to vote just to vote against him. but not like my puny one vote would have mattered in cali anyway. but that was my way of giving the birdie to the man. hahahah so yeah. i wasn't gonna vote again this year and i kind of didn't. cuz i'm registered absentee now so i get the ballot at home. and was gonna just ignore it but obviously prop 8 is everywhere and unavoidable. how you're voting on prop 8 and who you're voting for president are like the questions you hear everywhere. and the more i thought about it all, i felt i had to make the trip home to mark my absentee ballot. i voted no on 8 and let my parents fill in the rest of the ballots. being a christian and a supporter of the adam and eve, not adam and steve idea, when it came down to it, voting yes on 8 for religious reasons would have been not only ignorant, but irresponsible when considering the "love your neighbor" thing. i think you need to consider how who and what will be affected and really, the effects of voting yes wouldn't ever be felt by most of the people i see on a regular basis. but in my mind, the effects of prop 8 passing would clearly have negative and hurtful effects on a lot of people. people. like real people's lives would be affected. if it didn't pass, it wouldn't change or hurt anything except for the feelings of people who are not comfortable with the idea of two gay people getting married. and in all honesty, i'd prefer that gay marriage be called something else. i'd like the 'traditional' definition of marriage to be between a man and a woman, but there would be too much politics involved to make that kind of change in time. you could bring the separation of church and state thing into this debate too. anyway, point i wanted to make is that i think voting yes on 8 to 'uphold' traditional marriage because of what one imagines to be religious reasons is something i don't think Jesus would be proud of because you end up reaching into and making more difficult other people's lives. we were all given free choice and i feel that when your decisions can negatively affect others, you ought to think beyond your original knee-jerk reaction. btw, can somebody put up a bill to legalize weed? helloma, your cds are coming this week. | 
