Posted on 11/04/2008 10:08:40 PM PST by paltz
After a heated, divisive campaign, fueled by a record $73 million of spending, California voters Tuesday were backing Prop. 8, which would change the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Six months after the California Supreme Court cleared the way for gay and lesbian couples to legally wed, the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who took advantage of the landmark decision now are wondering if they will be the last.
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Not surprising to me at all. The hispanic, black, and asian communities in CA are what passed prop 8, not whites. In fact I will bet the white vote rejected 8. The minority communities are very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, but otherwise leftist, and so 8 passed and Obama won. No conflict there at all.
CNN (fwiw) says the exit polls show it going down 52-48. But we’ll have to wait for the morning to see if they were right or not.
This headline is misleading. Prop 8 has not been projected to win. An avalanche of no votes from the Bay Area have yet to be counted.
The article makes it sound not quite clear yet, polls only recently closed, 20 % counted, rather close margins. Is it definite Prop 8 will pass? And if so, will the same court that rejected the voters’ decision last time (a legislative definition of marriage which they overturned) be able to somehow block an amendment to the constitution? The governor and the courts in that state are determined to pander to homos and lesbians, it they ignored the legitimate ballot measure, why would they not find a way to obstruct this?
This prop was offered because the liberal courts overturned prop 22. The difference is that this is a constitutional amendment. The courts can only rule on the constitutionality of an issue. They can’t change the constitution.
I could be mistaken, but I don’t think McLame supported Prop 8. He certainly didn’t push traditional marriage, unlike W in 04.
“One F’ed up state!”
It makes no sense.
And I live here.
Totally dysfunctional.
Answered prayer.
It hasn’t passed yet....looks good, but it was 56% about an hour ago and down to 53% now. This state is too crazy to start counting the chickens before they’ve hatched.
Prop 8
Yes 2,071,916
No 1,840,321
26%
Prop 4
Yes 1,952,973
No 1,824,993
22%
Thankfully (and hopefully) Obama will only replace the leftist judges anyway, seeing they're the oldest and most feeble. "Balance" maintained. Bye Bye Ruthie, hello Eleanor Smeal.
Sorry, I live in New York so I shouldn’t talk. :-)
This is indeed good news, albeit temporary. Regardless of what the courts have to say about this, the youngest generation of Americans is squarely in favor of gay marriage. I’m glad this proposition passed and I think it’s important to vote on this issues, I’m just aware that the longterm outlook on this looks very bleak. We should all be prepared.
SF has already report 63+% of their precincts. LA has only reported 11 %, but 8 is passing there (so far) by 8 percent. Orange County has only reported 10% of their precincts and Yes is passing by almost 20 percent there. San Diego has also a number of precincts to count and Yes is passing there also.
In short...Yes on 8 will pass.
63% of San Francisco precincts have reported and it’s still up 53-47%. ALL of southern California’s counties, with the exception of Santa Barbara county, are passing Prop 8...so I think it holds. There are not enough votes left in the Bay Area to overwhelm what is remaining in the pro-yes southern parts.
I hate to throw rain on an already soaked group, but California has a history of activist judges invalidating propositions that do not fit the liberal orthodoxy. Prop 8 will be tossed by some judge in short order.
Did you REALLY think you do a trifling thing like amend the State Constitution and get away with it?
Praise God for small victories. I truly think He would be very angry if we didn’t pass this and squelch gay marriage.
Obama will probably get 2 this election cycle and they are both liberals. He will just be replacing 1 liberal for another.
John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the most likely to go.
Let’s hope Scalia does not decide to retire.
He can replace two and nothing will change in the SCOTUS.
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