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Good electoral news in Cali
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 8:06 am
by forestwalker
Prop 8 passes
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 8:11 am
by Paully_44
Do you have a "right to die" initiative there? Up here in Washington, we just passed one last night with nearly 60% of the votes in favor of.
Re: Good electoral news in Cali
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 8:44 am
by paul
forestwalker wrote:Prop 8 passes
apparently California is not as liberal as some other states.
In all seriousness it was a clear example of the church in action. The Catholic Church and its leaders, the Jewish community the evangelicals and Pentecostal/charismatic. The white and spanish churches. also the coming together for a day of prayer and fasting by the general church at the Qurram in San Diego.
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 8:56 am
by forestwalker
Paully_44 wrote:Do you have a "right to die" initiative there? Up here in Washington, we just passed one last night with nearly 60% of the votes in favor of.
No, the insurance companies have not yet succeeded in getting this evil on our ballot.
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:25 am
by MacUser
Amazing!
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:31 am
by DeWayneTN
I read comment after comment today of enraged Californians who think they should revoke tax-exempt status from churches because of this. Brace yourselves for the backlash!
Florida
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:37 am
by scooter
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:49 am
by forestwalker
DeWayneTN wrote:I read comment after comment today of enraged Californians who think they should revoke tax-exempt status from churches because of this. Brace yourselves for the backlash!
The prop
was the backlash. We ain't the aggressors on this issue. No doubt they'll regroup, but their arrogance really backfired on them and has bought us some time.
Here's the mayor of San Francisco reacting to the state supreme court's decision that prompted the initiative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5K_0uRNCQ
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 10:03 am
by paul
the same prop. also passed in Arizona also. The irony is that the large turn out of black voters in favor of Obama were also strong supportes of the ban on Gay marriage.. Maybe a silver lining afteral for us here in California
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 11:00 am
by dbserv
I'm proud of our county. Even though the Prop passed with a close margin, we were ove 70% in favor of it. Although, the bad news is that we are down from the 83% who supported the original Prop several years ago that started the whole court case.
Maybe the Central Valley should secede and form a new state of "Sanity".
Even the Sacramento County Clerks office is refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays, as of about 11 a.m.
I didn't expect that to happen until the election was certified in "39 days" according to our "moonbeam" Attorney General Jerry Brown.
irony of ironies
Posted: November 6th, 2008, 3:13 am
by pastorables