California Proposition 8 - Why Should We Care?

California Proposition 8 - Why Should We Care?
Okay Dear Readers, other than another salvo on the social / cultural warfare front what is the big deal? Shouldn't we let them come out of the closet and enjoy all the benefits as the traditional married couples (heterosexual couples) enjoy?

Is there an alternate agenda? If same-sex marriage had a sole agenda the extension of marriage to homosexuals and lesbians that might on its surface be solely be acceptable. However, when the agenda is the imposition of their will on me or upon another innocent through governmental or other third party institution, then we must resist their efforts with all our zeal.



For those of you who don't follow California politics Proposition 8 is only fourteen words long. However, it has enflamed passions up and done the golden state in small town as well as in the largest metroplitan areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Here is what Proposition 8 says:

Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

It looks simple right? This proposition ammends the California State Constitution so that the Activist Juducary cannot strike it down as it did Proposition 22, which opened the door for "Same Sex Marriage". So again I ask what is the big deal and why all the hoopla?

I offer for your consideration the following possibilities:

• Education Code Responsibility to educate all enrolled regarding marriage and family; The California Education Code only requires that those school districts teach about marriage and family if and only if they are teaching about sex education. The kicker here is that 96% of California Public Schools are currently be taught about sex education in one form or another!
• Massachusetts Precedence
• Massachusetts Public Education changed dramatically after same-sex marriage was made legal. It is fact that heterosexual parents were told that they did not have the right to be notified when their children were being taught about same-sex marriage in the class room; when many objected some were cited for misdemeanor offenses.

• Agenda of Radical Gays & Lesbians- What is the true agenda of the radical Gays & Lesbians?
  
• Freedom of Speech - Post Proposition 8 = Hate Crime --> In a Post Proposition 8 California in which Proposition 8 has been defeated the ultra radical Gay Agenda simply don't want the same rights, but they want more. They want Freedom of Speech only for themselves, and for those who view Same-Sex Marriage as an Ethical or Religious Wrong, they want it to be viewed as a "Hate Crime".
• Mike Morrell has written the following:

• As organizations large and small rewrite their policy handbooks, America will inevitably adopt a new national character, one likely to put limits on our freedom of speech. Time and again, the gay community – in contrast to their professed love of tolerance – has demonstrated a willingness to persecute free expression that differs from them on the issue of human sexuality.
  
  
• Imagine sitting in a religious meeting, in the Church of Your choice, and the Police enter and carry away the Pastor, Priest, or Bishop for Crimes against the State.

• Worse yet, you are having a prayer at home, following an evening in which you taught your children about God-given and ordained Family and Marriage; there is a thunderous knock on the door. There is the Religious-Hate Crime Police. You and your spouse are taken aware and your children are placed into foster care, gay or lesbian foster care for "thought reeducation". Don't think its possible? If the radicals have their way, freedom of speech, assembly, and religion will all become subject to new Hate Crime Laws.

• Parental Rights will be converted to States Rights if Proposition 8 is Defeated
• Impact on Private Adoptions - Rather than continue operations under a required same-sex marriage law, many private adoption services, such as Catholic Charities, LDS Social Services will suspend operations. Think it cannot happen? It already happened with Catholic Charities in the State of Massachusetts.
  
• Emigration of Medical Professionals - There will be a mass emigration of professionals such medical professionals rather than subject themselves to the legal system or to violate their personal beliefs. This has happened on a limited basis in the State of Mass. and in California.
  
• The Example of Catholic Charities in Massachusetts

Ultimately, the big deal about same-sex marriage is this: Traditional Marriage is the foundation for the traditional family. It is the traditional family which is the basis for the solid basis for a stable society.

Morrell continues (same source):

• Finally, let us consider the impact that marriage has on children. Decades of scientific and government data are conclusive: a child exhibits, overall, the best physical, cognitive and social outcomes when raised in a home where the mother and father are united in holy matrimony. Such children are less likely to be victimized by physical abuse, less likely to face prison time as adults, less likely to be expelled from school, and less likely to become depressed or to suffer from developmental and behavioral problems. Today we see all around us the damage done to children from the devaluation of the nuclear family. What kind of new miseries will the latest attack on the family bring?

Vote Yes on Proposition 8.

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