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The Supreme Court of California deserves honour for having gone against its own clear views in the service of the law and the people. What it will get is something I am familiar with: the most vicious, sustained and homicidal floods of hate-mail you can NOT imagine. If you haven't been at the ugly end of a homosexualist hate campaign, you simply have no idea what hatred is like. It is not only frightful, it is foul; it is a thing that makes you feel dirty even if you resist it, that makes you want to turn back and abandon the field merely because it is so disgusting. Even standing against it is depressing and frightening. I just hope the justices are prepared for what awaits them.

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CO rejected a similar referendum and state amendment related to gay marriages (2006 state elections), so I believe that is the proper terminology. The justices are for sure going to get a slew of hate mail and calls, but their decision is valid.

I admit I don't have much of an opinion on homosexual issues, probably since I am not one. It isn't for lack of compassion against hate crimes (which I find disgusting), but is a battle in which I don't choose to fight. I feel guilty for this at times as I have a half-brother with whom I am not close, and trying to have some relationship with, that is homosexual. For all I can tell, he is a delightful human being. I suppose that is what is most important, regardless of state laws and referendums.

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I have had plenty of homosexual friends, though to the best of my knowledge no member of my family is one. I also have had at least three friends and acquaintances who are transsexual, for that matter. I have even once been in love with a 100% butch lesbian. I still oppose gay marriage, for a number of reasons, of which the most important is that the Humpty Dumpty theory of language ("when I use a word, it means what I want it to mean, neither more nor less"), does not work for me. I also think that there are quite a few homosexuals who do not recognize themselves in the homosexualist movement, and of whom the bravest would tell you exactly what I did about its character.