Lots of people knows someone in California, (family, friends) Call them let them know why this is an important issue. Let them know that this is an issue that is greater than themselves. Marriages are in trouble, that means children are in trouble. Encourage them to see the movie Fireproof.
Prop 8 is unprecedented we are in a Roe vs Wade situation that will have an impact on our children's children. Prop 8 stands to protect freedom of speech from being encroached by the court. The court order encroaches parent's rights to teach their children traditional values, prevents honest debate on the negative aspects of alternative life styles. Being a court order without Prop 8 California's may never get these god given rights back.
Beyond evangelical Christians - Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus are uniting against same-sex marriage in California, more so than they did with 2000’s Proposition 22, Proposition 8’s predecessor, which was successful.
“What binds us together is one common obsession … a 5,000-year-old institution that’s being hammered right now,” Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church, an evangelical congregation in La Mesa, Calif., told the Los Angeles Times in an Aug. 24 story.
Garlow and other pastors told the Times they plan a 40-day fast leading up to the election, citing its importance. 1000 pastors have asked people to fast and pray.
Boycott McDonalds McDonalds profits funding same sex marriage, pray for knowledge of what God wants you to do.
One of our greatest tools is fellowship, help get the word out, ask people to pray for California, ask them to call California. It is hard for people to ask but California needs your help.
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- Talk Wisdom
- Webcast for Marriage Oct 1st
While only those 18 and older will be voting on Proposition 8 next month, their decision will have the greatest impact on those unable to vote: children. Young people are constantly bombarded with messages in the media and at school that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are acceptable and good for our society. Many are confused by the conflict that arises between the culture and their family's morality. Pastor Miles McPherson of Rock Church in San Diego is particularly concerned about the impact of homosexuality on young people.
- ADF
- Levi’s joining to defeat Calif. Prop. 8, marriage amendment
The San Francisco-based jeans maker said Thursday it will co-chair with Pacific Gas & Electric a group trying to drum up opposition to Proposition 8 in the business community . . .
Levi Strauss has pledged $25,000 to Equality for All, the coalition leading the No on 8 campaign, says company spokesman E.J. Bernacki. Robert Haas, the company’s chairman emeritus, and his wife have given $100,000, Bernacki said . . .
- Hedgehog Central
- Same Sex Marriage is about more than "I Do"
Marriage in California isn't just about the rights of loving and committed gay couples. If that were the issue, Proposition 8 wouldn't be on the state ballot. All Californians respect the right of gay couples to live the lifestyle they choose and to enjoy the same legal protections of every citizen. California's laws, including our expansive domestic partnership statutes, already provide every legal right to gay couples that are provided to married spouses.
The California Supreme Court's ruling last May gave birth to a broader perspective on same-sex marriage, and that is how it affects the rest of society. That's why Proposition 8 is on the ballot, and that is why we are working hard to pass it.
- ReliableAnswers
- Webcast for Marriage
The Fine Line: a Rally for Youth, Young Adults, and Parents will be held at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at the Rock Church in San Diego. The non-partisan event is free and open to the public.
- Protect Biblical Marriage
- Write Letters to restore CA marriage
As we get closer to election day on November 4, 2008, it is very important for California Christians to write letters to the editor in support of Proposition 8!
- Don't Believe the Gay Hype
My "Official Voter Information Guide" arrived in the mail the other day. Today, I took some time to read what is stated about Proposition 8.
On the "title and summary" page, we read the biased selection of terminology which was prepared by the attorney general - who is obviously in the tank with gay activists.
It reads:
- The Christ in Prophecy Journal
- Courage for Canadian Churches
Did you know that churches and Christian organizations in Canada are not allowed to say anything against homosexuality from their pulpits and periodicals?
- Christocentric
- Gay Unions don’t affect religious freedom? Think again!
There are many who believe Christians are just being paranoid regarding losing their religious freedoms because of the acceptance of gay unions. Many (such as myself) believe that since gay relationships are now being given the same preferential treatment as male and female marriages, then it only makes sense for many to begin believing that these “moral” unions are now being discriminated against!
- I Support Marriage
- Yes, California schoolchildren will learn about homosexual ‘marriages’
When Proposition 8 said in its ballot argument that, without its passage on the November ballot, California schoolchildren as young as kindergarten would be indoctrinated to support man-man and woman-woman “marriages,” the homosexual activists became livid and said it was a lie. But the negative effect on little children is true.
- The State of America's Family
- Democratic National Committee gave $25,000 to defeat Calif. marriage amendment
The Democratic National Committee has given $25,000 to help defeat a proposed constitutional marriage amendment in California, despite the fact that a significant percentage of Democrats in the state are expected to support it this fall.
The DNC’s donation was made to Equality for All, a leading homosexual activist group in the state seeking to keep “gay marriage” legal.
If passed, the amendment, known as Proposition 8, would protect the natural definition of marriage, thus overturning the state supreme court’s May decision legalizing “gay marriage.”
- The Blog of Walker
- Gay Rights vs Our Rights
In May this year the California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 22, which affirmed opposite-sex marriage, was unconstitutional. To date, only Massachusetts in the United States allows same-sex marriage. So what are the Canadian lessons for California and other states that will, in time, face a debate about the redefinition of marriage?
- Mercatonet
- Same Sex Marriage Lessons from Canada
... where gay rights triumph, new rights battles begin. One example is over the rights of children. Another is over polygamy, which soon involves freedom of religion. A third battle is over freedom of speech -- the right to publicly advocate traditional marriage can be challenged as homophobic. Secondly, where marriage is not understood as an institution, it cannot be defended adequately in the public square. In short, if North Americans are not educated on what marriage is, they will not, in the long term, support an exclusive definition, one that will appear discriminatory even if this is not the case or the intention. ...
- One News Now
- Fatherlessness and same-sex parenting
Sadly, what Moynihan saw happening in the black community has now happened in American society as a whole. With celebrities leading the way, it is now no big deal for women to have babies out of wedlock. The very phrase "out of wedlock" sounds positively old-fashioned. Accidental pregnancies can be aborted -- or not -- take your pick. And these days, eyebrows are barely raised over intentional pregnancies by single women. The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story called "Looking for Mr. Good Sperm" a while back on the trend among single women, tired of waiting for Mr. Right, to seek out instead the right sperm donor. The author writes, "As recently as the early 60's, a 'respectable' woman needed to be married just to have sex, not to speak of children." Imagine! What a ridiculous notion that sex was anything more than mere recreation. And as for procreation, who needs it?! The sex part that is. Technology's come a long way, baby. So guess who's become obsolete in an ever-growing number of households headed by single women or lesbian couples? You got it: fathers. But is that bad?
- Red County, California
- California Proposition 8 and Natural Law Rights
A. Scott Loveless, guest-posting at Hugh Hewitt’s blog, appeals to California voters to reassert natural law rights and vote yes on Proposition 8.
The post is long and — eek — footnoted.
It refers to the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the Constitution, King George, the American Founders, the U.S. Supreme Court, the California State Supreme Court, John Locke, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. It touches on criminal codes, tort, contract, and property laws.
- Hugh Hewitt
- A Crucial Guest Post: "The Forgotten Founding Document" by Professor A. Scott Loveless
The Forgotten Founding Document: The Overlooked Legal Contribution of the Declaration of Independence And California’s Opportunity to Revive It Through Proposition 8
- Michelle Malkin
- Meanwhile, back in San Francisco…
You’ll be thrilled to know that despite economic uncertainty and panic over the failed bailout, San Francisco’s infamous Folsom Street Fair went off over the weekend without a hitch. Or rather, with plenty of hitches. And the whitewashers at the San Francisco Chronicle lapped it all up:
- johnseilerblogs.com
- Same-sex “marriage” — Yes on California’s Prop. 8 — refuting O.C. Register editorial
I always put same-sex “marriage” in irony quotes because it’s an absurdity, a joke. In reality, there is no such thing.
Yet so-called same-sex “marriage” is “legal” here in California, and in Massachusetts and New York. Out here, the foolishness was “legalized” in May by an anti-constitutional edict of the state Supreme Court. Our Nov. 4 ballot includes an initiative, Proposition 8, that would amend the California Constitution to ban the absurdity.
- Misandry Review
- The Politics of Marriage
... What is the primary problems facing the institution of marriage today?
Divorce, the welfare system and the family courts.
But what is all of the modern day political debate focused on?
Same sex marriage.
In this way, the truly devastating results of the decades-long war on marriage that has been carried out by BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS continues ever forward, while both sides for which the majority of Americans identify with continue the meaningless and insignificant battle over the issue of "Same-Sex Marriage."
- Africa - Analisi e pratica dell’informazione III
- Same Sex Marriage Lessons from Canada
In May this year the California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 22, which affirmed opposite-sex marriage, was unconstitutional. To date, only Massachusetts in the United States allows same-sex marriage. So what are the Canadian lessons for California and other states that will, in time, face a debate about the redefinition of marriage?