Anti-Prop. 8 forces should wait for 2012 ballot, pollsters say

[Lady_Jean_La]

A PPIC poll taken in mid-March of likely voters found that 44 percent favored allowing gays and lesbian couples to marry, while 49 percent opposed it.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1897355.html

[Tracian]

It is interesting that the current lawsuit is going to take this issue to SCOTUS.


From your link:

A strange-bedfellows duo of top constitutional lawyers filed suit in federal court Wednesday to overturn Proposition 8 on the grounds it violates the U.S. Constitution's equal-protection clause.

Speaking at a Los Angeles press conference, attorneys Theodore B. Olson and David Boies said the suit, filed on behalf of two gay California couples, seeks an injunction to stay the law while the case proceeds.


To answer your question, I think it should be put on the ballot every time it can, until equality is reached.

[Details]

Put it up for a vote now - every election. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Let people stand up and be counted, let them look at the gay couples they are denying rights to, rather than having them be a forgotten issue.

Much harder to say you shouldn't be allowed to marry, when you are looking right at two people in love supporting each other, maybe with a child, or pets, or a home - everything but the marriage license. Harder to demonize and minimize people you have to see.

[Lady_Jean_La]

I would rewrite it though, the choices would be

allow all consenting adults to marry

disallow all consenting adults to marry

what would the people vote for?
I would go with the second option legally. Religiously, people can do what they want. jmo

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/1942208.html

A hearing on their request for a temporary injunction that would prevent the state from enforcing Proposition 8 is scheduled for July 2. If a judge grants the request, gay couples could have years to avail themselves of the right to wed before the case gets settled.