Prop 8

Six Consequences the Coalition Has Identified If Proposition 8 Fails
1.
Children in public schools will have to be taught that same-sex marriage is just
as good as traditional marriage.
The California Education Code already requires that health education
classes instruct children about marriage. (?51890)
Therefore, unless Proposition 8 passes, children will be taught that
marriage is between any two adults regardless of gender. There will be
serious clashes between the secular school system and the right of
parents to teach their children their own values and beliefs.
2.
Churches may be sued over their tax exempt status if they refuse to allow
same-sex marriage ceremonies in their religious buildings open to the public.
Ask whether your pastor, priest, minister, bishop, or rabbi is ready to perform
such marriages in your chapels and sanctuaries.
3.
Religious adoption agencies will be challenged by government agencies to
give up their long-held right to place children only in homes with both a mother
and a father. Catholic Charities in Boston already closed its doors in
Massachusetts because courts legalized same-sex marriage there.
4.
Religions that sponsor private schools with married student housing may be
required to provide housing for same-sex couples, even if counter to church
doctrine, or risk lawsuits over tax exemptions and related benefits.
5.
Ministers who preach against same-sex marriages may be sued for hate
speech and risk government fines. It already happened in Canada, a country
that legalized gay marriage. A recent California court held that municipal
employees may not say: ?traditional marriage,? or ?family values? because,
after the same-sex marriage case, it is ?hate speech.?
6.
It will cost you money. This change in the definition of marriage will bring a
cascade of lawsuits, including some already lost (e.g., photographers cannot
now refuse to photograph gay marriages, doctors cannot now refuse to
perform artificial insemination of gays even given other willing doctors). Even
if courts eventually find in favor of a defender of traditional marriage (highly
improbable given today?s activist judges), think of the money ? your money ?
that will be spent on such legal battles.