elections are coming!

It seems so odd that soon it will be election day and I must cast my vote for whom I want to be the next president of the United States.  I have watched the debates, I have discussed the issues and I have decided I am going to write about my opinion on marriage because that is something I do know (quite clearly I do not have strong convictions on other stuff).  I find it fascinating to hear the debate whirling around marriage.  I guess I grew up in a conservative town with small town ideas ( you wave to everyone who drives by because you just might know them). My parents  always taught me was to be kind to others and treat everyone as equals. I feel in this debate over marriage, people are mixing up what the concept of equality with the basic definitions. For thousands of years marriage has been defined as the union between a man and a woman. I am also a very religious person ( The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and have read the old and new testament repeatedly. These text that I accept as the word of God (both the old and new) do support marriage as being between a man and a woman.  That doesn't mean that people who wish to create alternative homes do not have the right to. If people have a desire to live together, that is their choice. If a patient in a hospital decides to have a friend/ partner visit them or have rights to medical files, they should have the choice. By definition though, marriage is the a union between a man and a woman. In this election, California will again be voting on the definition of marriage. I fully support proposition 8.