After the passage of Prop. 8 , I received a message from a girl I knew in high school who is now studying to be a Marriage and Family Therapist. Her message was an attempt to comfort me by offering her explanation for why it passed:
“Most people don’t support traditional marriage because they HATE gay people- but that they LOVE traditional marriage and all it represents in our society.”
So what does ‘traditional marriage’ represent in our society? Proponents of Prop. 8 vehemently argued that marriage between a man and a woman, ‘traditional marriage,’ is the very fabric of our society. Like my former classmate so astutely pointed out, spouses in a ‘traditional marriages’ “both bring different aspects to a relationship and many of these differences are based on the differences between males and females.” Unfortunately, that answer is not good enough.
Posted by Ted 