California moves toward gay marriage

Voting along party lines, the California State Senate has approved a law that would permit same sex marriage. I think the Democratic majority in the California Senate has done something that will be very damaging to the party nationally and to our social institutions. Our society and I suspect the gay community as well is not ready for gay marriage. While divorce is a major cause of family instability (and we should take a look at changing no-fault divorce laws), I think that allowing gay marriage will only further weaken the traditional family structure. I hope that there will be enough of an outcry in Middle America to force moderate Democrats in Congress to support a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Last September, 36 House Democrats voted in favor of a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman while 27 Republicans opposed the amendment. Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska recently announced his support for a marriage amendment. While it is a long shot, I think that a federal constitutional amendment is the only way to stop the radical social progressives determined to force gay marriage down our throats.

The California State Assembly has now passed the gay marriage law. Let's keep the pressure on Arnold to "terminate" gay marriage in California with a veto. And we need to let the White House, Republican Congressional leaders and red state Democrats in Congress know that we demand action on a federal constitutional amendment.

A lot of good it did to vote for Prop. 22. The gay-libs snuck this one through hanging on another bill. People in Calif. should be outraged! We have to keep the pressure up. Call, write, email, protest, demand, picket.... whatever it takes! This is the last straw for the SF dems. Out with you.

Our society and I suspect the gay community as well is not ready for gay marriage.>>

They're not the least bit interested in gay marriage; they want married couples' relationships to have no more significance than their own. Not to raise themselves, but to drag us down.

We already voted on this years ago. The People of Kalifornia have said NO to gay marriage for years. By margins of 60+%.

I guess if the people vote for something and the politiciticans disagree - they can just do it anyway.

That's democracy?

http://www.marriagewatch.org/media/prop22.htm

California Proposition 22

Proposition 22

On March 7, 2000, the people of California voted on Proposition 22, a proposal to enact a state "Defense of Marriage Act" as an initiative statute. The text of Prop 22 reads:

“Only marriage between a man and a woman
is valid or recognized in California.”

Proposition 22 was ratified by an overwhelming majority of California voters, prevailing by a 23-point margin. Statewide, 4,618,673 votes were cast in favor of the proposition, comprising 61.4% of the total vote. Opponents garnered 2,909,370 votes, for 38.6% of the vote.

Final vote counts revealed that Proposition 22 won in 52 of California's 58 counties, including all of the major metropolitan areas except for San Francisco. The six counties which did not approve Prop. 22 were all in the immediate San Francisco Bay area, including: Alameda county, Marin county, San Francisco county, Santa Cruz county, Sonoma county, and Yolo county.

Full election returns are available on the California Secretary of State website (PDF - 73KB).

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