With the polls swinging towards the Democrats in the national elections, you’d think that California’s Proposition 8 to amend California’s Constitution to specifically eliminate equal protection rights for gays and lesbians in California would be going down in crashing and burning. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Millions of dollars have been poured into the Pro-Prop 8 efforts here in California in an effort to get this measure passed.
If you believe in equal rights and that all loving couples should have the right to marry and enjoy the benefits and challenges that such a union offers, please consider donating to the No On 8 campaign. The right-wing has chosen to make California a battleground for the nation on this issue and we cannot let such intolerance be advanced in the name of fear.
As the Santa Cruz Sentinal puts it in their editorial against Proposition 8:
It’s not about moral teaching. It’s about equal treatment for all people under the laws of our state.
Just to give you a sense of the scare tactics these folks are using, the subheading on their web site is:
Restoring Marriage and Protecting California Children
Oh, please… I hope that none of the children they’re supposedly protecting are actually gay or lesbian. Imagine having to have this conversation with your child:
“Sorry, Son, a long time ago I was scared of people who were gay so I voted to eliminate your rights so it would be impossible for you to live a life like the one your mother and I enjoy.
I believed that men and women chose to be gay so they could enjoy being beaten, mocked, marginalized and discriminated against. Your choice to get married would have no effect on me or our lives, but I was scared of people like you. Sorry about that.”