On Friday, the Los Angeles Times endorsed voting against Proposition 8:
I'm taking both of these events as signs of the decreasing likelihood that Proposition 8 will pass. Let the conservatives keep spending their money, fighting off sleepless nights, and living in a time of many decades ago. Change isn't easy, but it has arrived. It's time for equality in marriage, and there's no denying it.
We fervently hope that voters, whatever their personal or religious convictions, will shudder at such a step and vote no on Proposition 8.Additionally, a Superior Court judge in Sacramento ruled on Friday that State officials do not need to reword Proposition 8, after changing the language to a proposition to "eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry." The judge had this to say: "[t]he court is not willing to fashion a rule that would require the Attorney General to engage in useless nominalization."
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To be sure, the court overturned Proposition 22, a vote of the people. That is the court's duty when a law is unconstitutional, even if it is exceedingly popular. Civil rights are commonly hard-won, and not the result of widespread consensus. Whites in the South vehemently rejected the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools. For that matter, Californians have accused the state Supreme Court of obstructing the people's will on marriage before -- in 1948, when it struck down a ban on interracial marriages.
Fundamental rights are exactly that. They should neither wait for popular acceptance, nor be revoked because it is lacking.
I'm taking both of these events as signs of the decreasing likelihood that Proposition 8 will pass. Let the conservatives keep spending their money, fighting off sleepless nights, and living in a time of many decades ago. Change isn't easy, but it has arrived. It's time for equality in marriage, and there's no denying it.
Considering that ProtectMarriage.com has decided NOT to appeal the ballot language, what chance do you really see for Prop 8 to pass? I just don’t see a majority of Californians voting YES on a proposition titled ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY.
Once the churches realize that Prop 8 is an almost guaranteed loser, are they going to do the right thing and let their members know?
If not, what happens after Prop 8 loses 40-60 (or worse), and then the members find out that the churches were privy all along to internal polling that predicted a crushing defeat? Do the members get their money back?
Or do they get stuck paying for ads that were run by a campaign that knew it was going to lose but ran them anyway!