Looks like Victory for Proposition 8 and for Marriage in Calif
California media is reporting that with 90% of polls reporting in, 52% of the voters have upheld California’s marriage protection amendment, Proposition 8.
The “mainstream” media is still holding out hope that votes from certain liberal enclaves in California may yet carry the day for the homosexual agenda, but things are still looking good for Prop 8 so far.
Californians passed a Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 2000 which clearly defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
However, activists judges in May 2008 manufactured a “right” for homosexuals to call their unions “marriage.”
Pro-family and pro-marriage forces have had an uphill battle getting and defending Proposition 8. Homosexual activists tried to have the petition thrown out, and when that didn’t work, the California attorney general changed the language of the petition to prejudice voters against the measure. Marriage defenders have also faced a well-funded opposition campaign with Hollywood dollars and millions from homosexual activists around the country.
Florida and Arizona also passed marriage protection amendments yesterday.
With 99% of precincts counted so far, Florida reports that Amendment 2 has passed with 62%. That state required a 60% margin for passage rather than a simple majority.
Arizona’s Proposition 102 is showing 56-44% in favor with over 80% of precincts counted.
If all three states pass their amendments, that will bring the total of states with marriage protection amendments to 30. This puts marriage out of the reach of activist judges who would hijack marriage and allow homosexuals to counterfeit it.
This year’s events should serve as a warning to the remaining states that only have DOMAs. In both California and Connecticut, unelected judges have created law–something reserved to legislatures–in manufacturing a right for homosexuals to call their unions “marriage.” If other states don’t want to see marriage hijacked in their area, they should get busy with a marriage protection amendment.
And with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, along with his pledge to force the legitimization of homosexual behavior on America, other states had better act fast to protect marriage.
Assuming final passage of Proposition 8 in California, there will still be a mess to clean up. That state has for some months now allowed homosexuals to hold “marriage” ceremonies, so the question will be what happens to these unions that for a time were blessed by official state sanction.
Time will tell how hard it is to clean up the mess in California, but unless the numbers drastically change in the other direction, it looks like at least the mess won’t grow any bigger in that state.
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