Posted by yxibow on November 11, 2008, at 0:57:37
In reply to Re: Couldn't say it any better » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on November 11, 2008, at 0:35:11
> > My computer is slow because the kids have used up all the download time.
> > So I am still trying to download Keith Olberman's thingo.
> > And then I realised I had only the vaguest clue about what Prop 8 was about.
> > Perhaps someone can tell me.
>
> Prop 8 is a proposition that the California voters passed to outlaw same sex marriage. All of the same sex marriages are null and void now.That isn't necessarily true. The marriages, which by the way brought hundreds of millions of dollars of tourism to a crushed economy, may very well be held up by the courts.
This will go through the court system, and it is theoretically possible to overturn a proposition with another proposition but it has to be narrowly and carefully written.
Constitutional amendments should not be passed by a majority, but a supermajority like in other states.
My 2c.
And yes, I believe in the separation of church and state.
You can't mix religion and politics in the same arena and not expect to but heads together -- some of our prominent founding fathers were deists, which doesn't mean agnostic -- "Deists believe that God's greatest gift to humanity is not religion, but the ability to reason." (Wikipedia)
-- Jay
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