A similar amendment (#2) is on the ballot in Florida (about defining the word marriage between a man and a woman).

Even though I consider myself to be a Roman Catholic, I voted NO because I don't feel confortable thinking that I would have the right to judge what a person can or cannot do with thier life and who they spend it with.
I am not God, nor is anybody else on this earth so we really shouldn't even have the choice of telling people with whom they can spend thier life with.

I can understand where you are coming from popcornbird and I respect that too but religion aside, who makes the rules here? We are mere mortals.

I also voted NO because I think it really doesn't have anything to do with "gay" marriage as opposed to domestic partnerships (wheather it's a man/woman, man/man, woman/woman). If the Amendment passes, the civil rights of these people would be restricted.

As of now, it is estimated that Florida has 160 thousand domestic partnerships of which gay couples are only about 40 thousand. Why would I want to restrict someone from seeing thier loved one in a hospital in case of emergency or tell them they can't have survivor benefits when one or the other passes on, among many other things, just because they are not married or because they are gay?