Drive Begins to Reverse California's Prop 8 Gay Marriage Ban
SACRAMENTO --- Supporters of "gay marriage" in California began collecting signatures Nov. 16 for a proposed constitutional amendment that would ask voters next year to overturn Proposition 8.
If successful, California would become the first state where voters approve the redefinition of marriage.
The drive is being organized by the group Love Honor Cherish, which must collect nearly 700,000 valid signatures by mid-April to qualify the amendment for the ballot. The group, through, is aiming for 1 million signatures in light of the fact that petition drives nearly always result in thousands of invalid petitions. The amendment would appear on the November 2010 ballot.
The amendment would strike the Prop 8 language from the state constitution -- "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" -- and replace it with the following: "Marriage is between only two persons and shall not be restricted on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or religion."
Love Honor Cherish began collecting signatures the same day the California secretary of state's office approved the ballot language. The group faces long odds, particularly since it says it will avoid using paid signature gatherers -- something that Prop 8 supporters used and which nearly every successful constitutional amendment campaign in the state has used, The Sacramento Bee reported. Love Honor Cherish hopes to gather the signatures through social networking sites and through its website, SignforEquality.com. Petitions must be downloaded and mailed.
The drive is beginning at a time when homosexual activist groups in the state are divided. For instance, Equality California -- a major supporter of "gay marriage" -- is not backing the petition drive and instead is aiming for 2012 or later for its own petition drive.
Proposition 8 passed in 2008, 52-48 percent. It reversed a California Supreme Court ruling that had legalized "gay marriage."
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I may not be homosexual but anyone has the right to love which can not be denied. This is not just their fight but a fight for freedom and equality. so with that said carry on
This is a fight that will not end until we have ensured that all citizens have equal protection under the law .
Homosexuals are saying our LORD did not speak about Homosexuality. But HE did. HE spoke about Sodom, Gomorrah. HE said that in End Time world would become like S & G. They would do what they want to do with nothing & nobody to stop them.
Acushla, the point you are missing is that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed because of homosexuality . There is not one word in Genesis which says that they were. Ezekiel says that they were destroyed because they were proud and haughty and did not practice hospitality towards the poor.
What is described in the story of S&G is the rape of strangers, not loving, committed, monogamous relationships between people of the same gender, which are not condemned ANYwhere in the Bible.
But even more to the point, what the Bible says or doesn't say, and what your religion says or doesn't say about homosexuality is meaningless to the question of whether gay people should have full and equal civil rights in this society. Our laws are not dictated by your personal religious beliefs, anymore than your personal religious beliefs are dictated by our laws. You have the right to believe that homosexuality is wrong -- and the action which you can take on that belief is to not marry someone of the same sex as yourself. You do NOT, however, have the right to impose that belief upon someone else.
All I can say is I trust My LORD Yeshua. HE is not a liar. HE means what HE says and says what HE means. Jesus Christ is Coming Soon.
If you don't believe me, then just look in your Bible, Ezekiel 16:49:
"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy."
Doesn't say a word about homosexuality .
I trust God, too, Acushla, and I trust God enough to believe that God would not have created homosexual people as a cruel joke and then told them they could not have a loving partner in life. I don't worship a cruel, joking God. I worship a loving God.
Can't pick and choose the parts you lke.
But you can study and find which portions have been traditionally misrepresented and misinterpreted. Any classics scholar can tell you that this happens. There ARE no original source documents available. Exegesis of fragments of copies is difficult and painstaking work.
are picking and chosing. Any classics scholar will tell you that one opinion is as good as another!
There are no proofs as to the interpretation or misinterpretation of any of the writings of the bible , it is all ones perception.
So those bits about having to release a male slave after seven years, but keeping female slaves for their entire life… or having to pay a virgins father 20 silver pieces if you rape her (plus you have to marry her)… or that stuff about stoning people… all that is still valid?
Don’t say that you cannot pick and chose the parts of the Bible that you like if you don’t accept every part of the Bible.