June 3, 2008
Gay Marriage Ban Initiative to Show Up On California Ballot?
Hold on there, June brides. The Secretary of State announced yesterday that an initiative to re-ban same-sex marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot. Uh oh.
The California Marriage Protection Act needed 694,354 petition signatures to get on the ballot. It 1,120,801 signatures in April. The measure, it seems, would like to protect the sacred institution of marriage.
The ban on same-sex marriage, if you recall, was overturned by the California Supreme Court just last month. Now the voters will decide. Here we go again.
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Good, lets now lets make sure that this initiative loses so the fundies will shut the f up!
Exactly. Why anyone would vote for this, so we could be lumped in with the bigoted jesus freak states who have amended their constitution this way, is beyond me.
Jesus Christ himself could return to Earth wearing chaps and it wouldn't shut the fundies up. More modest goal -> Let's work our asses off to defeat this measure by a large enough measure that they will think twice before wasting money to put it on the ballot again. Lets let everyone know that California is better than that.
I would really, really like to eat those little marzipan people.
If we can defeat this it's over. The fundies will never be able to try again if (once? hopefully?) we beat it.
The fundies will try it every single election year, just like they do with the parental notification ballot measures.
They will never, EVER go away.
I'm not sure how clear cut this would be. Even if this passes and becomes part of the constitution, it would still conflict with the equal protection clause as previously interpreted.