YES on prop 8 petition, PROTECT OUR VOTE
Published November 9, 2008
Appeals by gay rights activist along with protest have already begun. This not only diminishing our democratic process but also showing hate and discrimination to those who supported traditional marriage, the same hate and discrimination those in the gay community were trying to prevent happening to them. All people should be treated with respect and dignity as well as our democratic process, even when it delivers results which you do not like.
Websites and Facebook groups have also begun to collect signatures to begun to attack the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint and their tax exempt status. It seems that the "false" arguments brought up during the debate for Prop 8 are now coming true. Proponents of gay marriage are threatening violence against churches, burning LDS temples, and seeking "revenge" due to hundreds of churches support for Prop 8. However, the LDS and Catholic churches are receiving much of the criticism.
The people have spoken on this issue not only once but twice. The first time four Superior court judges thought their opinions deemed of higher authority than the majority of Californians and overthrew proposition 22 on May 15, 2008. Again I see a pattern rising. Let it be known that this is a democracy. Websters Definition: a: government by the people; especially: rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. Thus allowing us as citizens to vote and putting the favor in the hands of the majority.
If the gay marriage advocates convince the courts to meddle in the decision of the voters and block or overturn proposition 8 in the same illegal way as proposition 22, ban of gay marriages, did in the 2000 election after it was passed by a 61% majority vote, it will be further evidence that our democratic process no longer works. Us 5,668,960 majority voters who passed prop 8 need to fight a good old fashioned American revolution to overthrow any further judicial tyranny and restore the balance of power envisioned in the constitution. Those governing derive their power from the governed, not special interests.