San Diegans React To Ongoing Same-Sex Marriage Debate

SAN DIEGO -- The cheery matrimony issue is inch the custody of state Supreme Court justices.

On Tuesday, statements were presented in a San Francisco courtroom.

Six separate lawsuits were heard jointly.

At interest is whether Golden State already protects the civil rights of same-sex couples through domestic partnerships, and if a opinion legalizing interracial matrimonies 60 old age ago gave them a case in point for dramatic down the same-sex matrimony ban.

The argument work stoppages an emotional chord for those who support it and those against it.

But one thing both sides hold on is they desire a declaration once and for all.

In San Diego, Bonny Charles Taze Charles Taze Russell and January Garbosky watched the statements on TV.

The couple of 20 old age desire to acquire married not just for emotional grounds but for decision-making in their future.

"It's extremely painful and it's frightening because I don't cognize what will go on to us as we age," said Russell.

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The couple said matrimony is their right.

"We shouldn't be denied the chase of felicity or to dwell out our hopes and dreamings of having a household and having the security as we age," said Garbosky.

Same-sex matrimony oppositions maintain, however, that matrimony should be between a adult male and a woman.

"We have got got a criterion of what matrimony intends and I believe that standard is one adult male and one adult female married and that's what matrimony is defined as," said Santee Sioux City Councilman Brian Jones.

Donald Hamer, who is opposed to same-sex marriage, said, "From a biblical point of position the whole thought of homosexualism is wrong."

Opponents have already started a request against same-sex marriage. The petition's purpose is to essentially change the state's constitution.

"The amendment that's being proposed by this place is very simple. It says that matrimony shall be defined one adult male and one adult female only," said another individual opposed to same-sex marriages.

The definition is different for Garbosky and Russell.

They said matrimony is between two people who love each other, no substance what sex.

After Tuesday's hearing, the tribunal have 90 years to make up one's mind whether Proposition 22 is legal under the Golden State constitution.