Chris

John Scalzi has two terrific posts up about California's Proposition 8:

1) What? Prop 8 Threatens Existing Marriages? You Don't Say:

This is why every single potential supporter of Proposition 8 should be looked square in the eye and asked if they are truly and seriously ready to say that that they personally are prepared to destroy already existing, already legal marriages — if they are truly and seriously ready to say that they know better than the people in a marriage whether that marriage should be allowed to exist — if they are truly and seriously ready to say to two married people, "you two don't deserve to be married, and I intend to kill your marriage now."

2) Something Worth Noting, Re: People Who Vote For Prop 8:

I think there are good, decent, kind and loving people who will vote for a proposition that is fundamentally bigoted and wrong and hurtful, and that they will do it out of the best of intentions, motivated by a belief in a particular religion, or fear of a changing world, or a perceived conflict in moral system, or because they want to plant a flag about the encroaching power of governments, some combination of any or all of the above, or for some other reason entirely.

* Florida's Amendment 2 will amend the Florida Constitution to add: "Inasmuch as a marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."

* Arizona's Proposition 102 "will amend the Arizona Constitution by adding the following article related to marriage: "Marriage – Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.""

The Florida one may be getting less press because they aren't actively ending marriages, and the Arizona one might be because the proposition will only strengthen what's already there, so I hear.

Still.  If you are in one of those states, vote no.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.