I've read some threads here about threat to marriage and the sky is falling. But it's mostly fearmongering. My marriage is not threatened by any of this.
Ah! You're voting "present".
When being married gets you governmental benefits of any kind, it is no longer private.
That said, I equate gay marriage with polygamy, interspecies marriage, intergenerational marriage, multiple spouses marrying multiple spouses, and any other 'arrangement' the degenerates of our society care to put together.
If marriage means anything, it means nothing. Current law lets any arrangement get legal rights if they choose to. Prop 8 is about making the concept of marriage obsolete.
Since America is/was a Christian country, it would have a profound effect on the raising of the next generation. You would have the propaganda from government telling everyone of the major religions that their beliefs are wrong. It would erode parent-child relationships.
Happened in Christian Europe and now that vacuum of the secular soul is being filled with Islam.
Christianity in the US is the one religion which created the best, most productive, and free society for both men and women on earth. According to God, everyone is valued (even the unbeliever). No other philosophy--especially atheistic, marxist ideology can create a society with such freedom for all.
Homosexuals want to have special rights and want to exclude half of the population in their selfish, nihilistic little union. Where homosexuality was exalted and practice (pagan societies, Nazi party (SS stormtroopers and the Hitler Youths)various native tribes) the societies have been totalitarian and horrible for women (the breeders).