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To: thames_sider who wrote (94594)	11/7/2008 3:17:15 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541598

ROFL I had a student writing a paper for history on JUST that topic today. It was interesting to watch him write it. He chose to write his current event hisorty paper on why Proposition 8 was a mistake, and he's my TA so I let him use my computer. It was a good paper. He argued that first there was a equity argument- and that it was not fair for the state to treat some of its citizens differently with regard to marriage- esentially choosing to define the institution so they would always be excluded, unless they married people they could never be attracted to sexually. And he made an allusion to miscegenation laws here. Secondly, he said there was an economic argument to be made for gay marriage- in that our state which badly needs money would profit not only from gay weddings, but from gay people who would choose to visit California as tourists because they realized our social climate was not hostile to them. He said if he were gay he'd boycott CA now. Lastly, he made an argument from compassion. That the message sent out by Prop8, and the ads around it, was that homosexuals are scary, and we don't want them around kids, and we don't even want kids to know about them. What kind of message is this to gays, and to gay youth? It is this "You are so horrible we have to redefine California law to exclude you. And we never want to hear about you in school." HEllO. There are gay children in schools all over California. Talk about a horrible message to them. Anyway, my student's paper was lovely, and I totally agreed with it, and I'm just so glad he forgot to shut the computer down so I could read it. I hope he gets an A+.