Tomorrow is election day, and by this point, if you are voting, you have probably already made up your mind. Some of you are voting for Obama, and that's cool. Some of you are voting for McCain, and that's cool too. Not what I would do, but you gotta vote for who you believe is right. I won't try to change your mind at this point.

However, if you live in California, and you are reading this, I do want to try to change your mind on one of our ballot issues.

Proposition 8. Proposition 8 is maybe the most distressing, and frankly, most depressing ballot measure that has come across my path. Proposition 8 is an amendment to the California State Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. It was put on the ballot to prevent homosexuals from getting married - a right they currently, finally, have here in our state.

Now personally, I couldn't care less if gay men and women want to get married. I don't care if they want to get divorced. Run marathons. Vote Republican. Watch TMZ. Eat veal. Whatever. The decisions they make in their own lives have no impact on my own. Until they show up at my house and start to redecorate, I'm cool.

Everyone makes personal choices that I will find distasteful. Even immoral. But that doesn't mean I think we should amend our constitution to prevent them from making those choices and living the life that they feel best to lead. Lord knows my own brother voted for George Bush. TWICE. And I still love the bastard. I don't think we should amend our constitution to keep him from voting.

This is not just a law. It amends our constitution to prevent fellow citizens from doing something that for the rest of us, we take for granted. Don't think so? 50% of the breeders out there will get divorced. We DEFINITELY take marriage for granted.

To deny 10% of our population the same rights and privileges, rights and privileges they currently have by law, simply because some of us find their lifestyle to be distasteful seems to be nothing but discrimination and patently un-American. America is NOT a Christian nation. It's an absurd argument. America is a nation in which the church and state is explicitly separated. Our constitutions shouldn't represent our values. Our values are individual. And frankly, they are fairly fluid. Our constitution should represent our principles. Life, liberty, honesty, freedom. Gay marriage doesn't seem like an affront on any of those. Marriage is not a principle.

It's argued that gay marriage represents the break-down of the American family and American morality. Strangely, I remember hearing the same arguments from racists and segregationists during the civil rights movement. I remember hearing the same arguments about video games. HBO. Rock and roll. Comic books. NYPD Blue. Bill Clinton.

I don't remember, however, any constitutional amendments banning them.

In this country, you can be a communist, nazi, fundamentalist, Islamist anarchist. But you can't be gay and married?

You can go on television, convince thousands to send you millions, go home to your mansion paid for by your congregation to fuck your secretary with a broom handle. But you can't be gay and married?

You can participate in MMA, jerk off to "Barely Legal," make slasher flicks, advertise beer on television, support corporations that enslave thousands in factories overseas or sell pesticides and chemicals overseas that are banned in our own country, lobby congress to shoot wolves from airplanes, and knock up the governor's teenage daughter.

But you can't be gay and married?

It's your right to believe that homosexuality is a sin. It's your right to find the lifestyle vile and repulsive. It's your right to dedicate your life to turning people from their sodomite ways. But it's not all right to discriminate under law. It's not all right to legislate your personal sense of morality. But it's not right to constitutionally enforce your own personal values onto others. Lying is a sin and liars can be married. Fornication is a sin and fornicators can be married. Adultery is a sin and even adulterers can be married (why is another question altogether). If we are going to discriminate, hell, let's go all the way. No consenting adults should get married. All our lifestyles are by nature inherently sinful.

But again, it's not the point. It's not about what we believe is right or wrong. It's about the rights we have as citizens.

This isn't a slippery slope argument either. The idiocy of talking about where this will lead - should pedophiles have the right to marry kids? Or pig fuckers have the right to marry pigs? Or toaster fuckers have the right to marry small appliances? We are talking about consenting adults. Consenting adults who until they are incarcerated felons deserve the same rights and privileges as the rest of us. As soon as kids and toasters and pigs can vote and go to war and pay taxes, THEN we will talk about slippery slopes.

And this isn't about schools or children. The absurdity of this belief still boggles my mind. As if the complex hormonal and biological system that tells me with EVERY fiber of my being that I like pussy could be so easily undermined by exposure to little Billy's two dads or little Susie's two moms. And for the record SO WHAT? Gay people will still exist whether or not we want kids to know about it. Hiding kids from homosexuality won't make it go away. At best it will only make young homosexuals feel more ashamed and afraid, and it might keep you from having an uncomfortable conversation after school one day.

But again, NOT THE POINT.

This isn't about what you believe. In this country we have a right to believe in God or Allah or Zeus or the all powerful Alan Rickman. What we should not have a right to do is to discriminate against our own citizenry.

Smoking kills 400K people a year. Seems to me that cigarettes are a far more immediate threat to our children. However, I will never vote to ban cigarettes. I don't even support efforts in LA to ban smoking from outdoor patios or even beaches (although I do think smokers should be subject to $1000 fines for littering). It's their right to smoke and their life to choose.

This vote is not about what you believe. It's about if you believe it's your right to choose for someone else.

It's not your right now, nor should it ever be.

This year, no matter what you believe, please, PLEASE, vote no on 8. If you don't know where to vote and you live in Orange County, go here .