Same-sex marriage hurts no one, it undoes nor redefines nothing. It offers the same celebration of commitment to gays that heterosexuals already have. It encourages monogamy, and staying together long-term. It affirms all families including their children, who already love their parents as they are, as God affirms and loves them, and their love for each other. I admire those who are fasting and praying against same-sex marriage because they believe they are doing the right thing. Get beyond the rhetoric and the fear-mongering if you can, and you will find only something positive for all residents of my former state of California. Slavery, the subjugation of women, segregation... all things which were once upheld by the Church because they believed the Bible said so... all are now understood for what they are - prejudism, injustice and anti-Christian.