Calif gay history referendum faces uphill battle

Dan82 · Sep 4, 2011

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...d1WjeQ?docId=cf0af863136b4d229c49ec71a86c10bb

At churches, shopping centers, schools, and local tea party meetings in California, fired-up volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights' milestones in school lessons.

Organizers of the Stop SB48 campaign— Senate Bill 48 was the law approved by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in July — are telling would-be voters the new mandate would inappropriately expose young children to sex, infringe on parental rights and silence religion-based criticisms of homosexuality. Those are talking points successfully used by proponents of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California.

But so far, Mormon and Catholic church leaders and conservative groups who spearheaded the Proposition 8 campaign have not joined the effort to qualify the gay history referendum for the June 2012 ballot, leaving less-experienced Christian conservatives to lead the charge without the organizational prowess and funding to hire paid signature gatherers...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...d1WjeQ?docId=cf0af863136b4d229c49ec71a86c10bb
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Emberstone · Sep 4, 2011

wait... arent the tea partiest always harping on about how the tea party is about fiscal policy, and not social issues?

Hopefully, we have a far more educated electorate in california than during the prop8 vote...

mnguy · Sep 5, 2011

So they're using lies to scare people again. Nothing new with that and it's so pathetic that some of them pretend to be "christian" yet they lie and bear false witness against us. Bunch of asshat fools.

Emberstone · Sep 5, 2011

you see, when god says you are not allowed to bare false witness, it only applies to non-fundie christians.

Austin · Sep 5, 2011

Aww I really don't want to have to vote. >_>

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