Marriage Battle in California
by liberallythinking
Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 07:17:31 PM PDT
In the March 2000 election, the voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 22 by over 61% of the vote. Prop. 22 added a regular statute to the California Family Code to keep marriage between a man and a woman and prevent the state Legislature from redefining marriage without a vote of the people.
However, this is being challenged when San Fransico Mayor Gavin Newson gave marriage licenses to non-straight couples.
Although I am generally liberal, I believe that marriage is between a man and woman and that tradition should remain strong because it may open the door to unintended consequences in the tax code, possibly even polygamist activists, etc. Also it questions our moral values and foundations of society.
I am confident this will pass since the DOMA passed with 61 percent, what do you think, will it pass in California, do you support it, why not?
Should marriage be decided by the will of the people or some judge?
