Posted on 10/24/2008 9:40:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Sierra Club, one of the country's foremost environmental clubs, declined to take a position on Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban, but urged Californians to vote no on Proposition 4, the parental notification measure.
Some gays were surprised at the club's omission of the most controversial initiative on the November ballot.
The club took positions on several other state ballot measures that concerned environmental issues.
Bill Magavern, the California director of the club, told the Bay Area Reporter Monday that Prop 8 "never came up" during meetings of the group's two volunteer committees that determine endorsements.
"The last time they met was in September. It never came up until two weeks ago," he said.
The Sierra Club has a regular conservation committee and an executive committee that determine endorsements. A two-thirds vote by the two committees is required.
Asked about the environmental concerns of Prop 4, Magavern said that the club has long been pro-choice and that Prop 4 would "block access to family planning," therefore, it is a population issue that affects the environment.
Yet in an e-mail about the club's endorsements that was sent to club members and was obtained by the B.A.R., Magavern mentions nothing about the environmental impacts of Prop 4.
"Let's turn back this bad family planning idea, and send a strong message against this dangerous amateur-abortion-promoting measure," was all that was written in urging a no vote on Prop 4.
Magavern said that out of the club's 180,000 California members, he has heard from two regarding the group's decision not to take a position on Prop 8.
What's the connection between the "environment" and homosexual unions? Oh, I forgot, leftist lobby groups want to intrude into people's bedrooms, too...
sierra club is supposed to be for nature, animals etc it is not supposed to be for homo’s and their perverted lifestyle.
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