Prop. 8 Supporters Sue Over 'Prejudicial' Ballot Wording

MarineVet »

Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:10 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 3

Right now, this very minute, gay and lesbians have the Constitutional right in the state of California to get married. They have had the right for over a month and will have had the right for almost 6 months by the Nov. vote. We've all seen them on tv getting married, solidifying their families, adding protections to their devotion to other and their children.

This is no different than when blacks got the right to vote, or when women got the right to vote or when inter-racial couples got the right to get married (by act of the California Supreme Court--not by a popular vote, BTW) and this country is about giving people equal rights, not taking them away.

Proposition 8 would clearly eliminate the right that same-sex couples currently have to get married. If you're asking the voters to write discrimination into the state Constitution for the first time in history, you should at least give them accurate information. The title as amended by Brown is accurate and fair.