Posted on 10/22/2008 7:58:16 AM PDT by SmithL
Stockton -- Nearly 100 people gathered in a deserted parking lot under a gray Central Valley sky, ready to knock on doors and tell perfect strangers why they should vote to ban same-sex marriage in California.
Bill Doughty, a volunteer organizer for the Yes on 8 campaign, told the crowd.
Stockton is only 90 miles east of San Francisco, but the Central Valley is worlds apart from coastal California, and the tight ballot battle over same-sex marriage highlights the distinction.
"There's an increasing divide between the coastal view of the political world and the Central Valley's view, and you can see that in Proposition 8," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll. "But the same-sex marriage question splits voters in a lot of ways, by party, by religion, by age, by region."
In a Field Poll in June that showed Prop. 8 losing statewide, only 37 percent of likely voters in California's voter-rich coastal counties were backing the same-sex marriage ban, compared with 54 percent in the less-populous inland section of the state. In the Bay Area, the center of the nation's gay rights movement, support for the measure skidded to 26 percent.
Those numbers might have changed slightly since the summer. Some recent polls showed the race tightening after a flood of TV ads by proponents of the measure.
While opponents of the initiative are holding events in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and Guerneville, it's no coincidence that a weeklong bus trip by Prop. 8 supporters is making stops in Chico, Bakersfield, Indio (Riverside County) and Modesto.
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even if it passes, somehow, someway judges will over turn it.
Thanks be to GOD.
The Prop 8 supporters were out in force here in Fresno/Clovis last Saturday, holding signs at busy intersections. Hope it wins big.
Since it is unclear whether Prop 8 would nullify the marriages between two men or two women since the June legalization, you can expect a court fight. AG Brown says it won’t but some Yes on 8 proponents say it will.
yes they would
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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