Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:38:26 PM
After telling us that prior polls showed voters favoring Prop 8, now we hear that the "no" side’s "lead is eroding." Los Angeles Times staff writer Jessica Garrison reports.
While California voters remain closely divided on the question of gay marriage, a majority oppose a measure to ban it, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Yet again they use the misleading terms "gay marriage" and "ban". It is same-sex, not gay, and Prop 8 doesn’t ban anything.
Recent polls commissioned by groups for and against the initiative have showed it passing, though most political analysts put less faith in polls funded by partisans than in those conducted by independent groups like the Public Policy Institute.
Ah. I see.
The California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in May, ruling that the state Constitution's promise of equal protection affords gays and lesbians the same right to marry as heterosexual couples.
Sloppy. "Gays and lesbians" already had the same "right to marry" before, they do now, and they will if Prop 8 passes.
Campaign contributions from out of state are flooding into California -- in part because the state is considered a bellwether, and what happens here could shape the future of gay marriage across the country.
More likely, it is because getting a marriage license in California will allow people to go (back) to other states and try to overturn the laws there, against the voters in those states.
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