Marriage Equality Act
- Marriage Equality Act
Next June, California will hold primary elections for Governor, 53 Members of Congress, and for Barbara Boxer’s Senate Seat and other state offices. Just to throw some mix into the process, California also has a process for placing propositions on the ballot. Propositions come in two forms: Initiatives and Referendums.
The Initiative is the power of the People to directly propose and enact state laws and amendments to the California Constitution. Under the initiative process, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment must receive a specified number of valid petition signatures in order to be placed on a statewide ballot for consideration by voters. An initiative measure may not address more than one subject. (Cal. Const. Art. II, § 8(d) and 12).
The Referendum is the power of the People to approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes enacted by the Legislature. However, the Referendum does not apply to urgency statutes which take effect immediately, statutes calling for elections, and statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for usual and current expenses of the State. To qualify for the statewide ballot, a Referendum measure must be submitted by specified deadlines after the enactment date of the statute. (Cal. Const. Art. II, § 9). For the specific deadlines that apply, contact the Initiative Coordinator or Secretary of State’s Election Division.
Or, in American, the Initiative is the power of the people to regulate the people, and the Referendum is the power of the people to regulate the Legislature, if the process is not corrupted by other forces, such as Socialism.
An Initiative is submitted to the California State’s Attorney General, along with a $200 filing fee. The Attorney General’s office then obtains a fiscal impact report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the California Department of Finance. Once the fiscal impact is received, the Attorney General issues a Title and Summary of the initiative, and presents it to the Secretary of State. Once the Title and Summary are issued, the Initiative is cleared for circulating a petition. Depending on the type of Initiative, enough legal signatures must be obtained and submitted to the county elections officials by November 16, 2009 to put the initiative on the ballot.
One such Initiative submitted to the California Attorney General’s office is the deceptively named “Re: Marriage Equality.” The so-called Marriage Equality Act is a proposed amendment to the California Constitution to change the part of the California Constitution that was changed by Proposition 8.
California’s Proposition 8 added to the California Constitution the clause, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The language prevents people from marrying dogs. It prevents a guy and two women from getting married. It prevents two men from getting married. Basically, it protected the word “marriage” from the language changing hypocrisy of the Socialists. For thousands of years, the word “marriage” has been defined as a man and woman coming together in a civil contract between themselves, a legal contract between both of them and the State, and a Covenant between both of them and God.
The Covenant between both parties of a marriage and God really pisses off the Statist, since they believe themselves too smart to believe in God. Karl Marx wrote Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalized system of free love. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of free love springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.source
The text of the initiative aims to replace the Proposition 8 clause with a different clause that reads, 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.
These guys, over at lovehonorcherish.org are trying to still convince voters that today’s marriage is not the same as your parent’s marriage. Proposition 22 was passed in 2000 by 61% of the voters to not change the definition of marriage. Proposition 8 was passed in 2008 by 52% of the voters, again to not changed the definition of marriage. Now this proposition, should it get on the ballot, will be the third time that marriage is presented to the voters.
The difference between the current law and the proposed law, under this Initiative, is that by throwing in the “basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or religion” words, they are trying to make this sound like a civil rights issue. Right now, nothing in California prevents a white Eskimo from Canada gay Presbyterian man from marrying a black Chinese lesbian Zoroastrian, and that won’t change under the proposed Initiative.
What will change under this proposed California Constitutional amendment is that men will be allowed to marry men, and women will be allowed to marry women, redefining the word “marriage.”
Hey word re-definers, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
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