To those who voted yes on Proposition 8

[docwebster]

I maintain that if you are expected to pay taxes, if you are eligible to fight for and possibly lay down your life in the service of your country, and if you are expected to vote a man or a woman into the highest office in the land, then you are entitled to the exact same benefits, legal and spiritual, as any other human being walking the face of this planet. This is sadly not the case in everyday practice and a truly sorry state of affairs for a country that has the brass to call itself civilized. If your mind and spirit are so infinitesimal you would deny two or three or four or more people in love the right to be married and to call it marriage based on so utterly ridiculous a criteria as sexual preference then I truly pity you. Don't try to throw that miserable sack of crap about "choice to be gay" or some variation thereof at me. I'm going to stop this post right here because the thinking of people who actually supported this legislation sickens me as do the people who voted for it.

Comments

[kshandra]

Of a higher priority to us (once 8 is overturned) is enacting legislation that requires a 2/3 majority to amend our state constitution. Because the fact that this was able to pass with a simple majority is ludicrous.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I think it actually hasn't passed yet - they're still counting votes as of the last time I heard. Also, the ACLU is suing because it appears there is a clause that says such a thing cannot be put on the ballot without first having the CA congress review it (see http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/37706prs20081105.html

"The California Constitution itself sets out two ways to alter the document that sets the most basic rules about how state government works. Through the initiative process, voters can make relatively small changes to the constitution. But any measure that would change the underlying principles of the constitution must first be approved by the legislature before being submitted to the voters. That didn't happen with Proposition 8, and that's why it's invalid."