Christian Wire: "Arnold will TERMINATE same -sex 'marriage' bill"

[Bluebear]

To: National Desk

Contact: Stacey Holliday of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 126

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) applauds Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) for his promise to veto a bill that, if signed, would have legalized homosexual "marriage" in California.

"Gov. Schwarzenegger has done the right thing in promising to veto this illegal bill. It's evidence that CWA of California and other pro-family groups got their message through to him: 'We don't want counterfeit marriage,'" said Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture & Family Institute. "The California Constitution clearly states that the Legislature cannot overturn a Proposition vote unless they put another Proposition on the topic to the voters, who spoke loudly and clearly with Proposition 22 in 2000 that they want marriage to remain marriage. The liberals don't dare put it to the people again for a vote, so they keep trying to do end-runs.

"We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot."

Knight concluded: "Clearly, the liberal Democrats in the Legislature don't trust the people anymore, and are doing their best to enact a radical, anti-family agenda with the help of out-of-control judges, like San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer, who couldn't find a single reason to keep marriage as the union of a man and a woman when he struck down Prop. 22 in March . It's time for Californians to take a hard look at what the liberals are doing to them, or at least trying to do to them."

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.

[davidinalameda]

1. that out of control judge is Catholic and a Republican

I would hardly call him a liberal

[Bluebear]

2. Accuracy doesn't matter to these people. nt

[davidinalameda]

3. the more I think about the veto

the more pissed off I get

Ahnuld's reasoning is bullshit--the whole "the legislature is overriding the people's wishes"

Prop 22 was passed back in 2000

we've had a couple of years to see that same sex marriages haven't brought the end of the world to Canada and Massachusetts

I thought the legislature was supposed to be the people's voice and it spoke on this issue

[Bluebear]

4. If you put racial equality to a vote...

I think the "people" would decide not to offer equal rights in a few states. The 'people's wishes' are not a valid argument to rights issues.

[davidinalameda]

5. that's one of the reasons I really don't like the referendum process

I don't like the idea of people voting on constitutional amendments influenced by 30 second commercials, which are usually their sole source of information on the subject

[Maat]

6. I agree, dwickham.

I don't like the referendum process at all.

Amending the Constitution should take 2/3 of the elected legislators - period.


Referendums that are merely legislation should require a popular vote AND approval by some percentage of the legislators.

[Cleita]

7. He's following orders like all good, "you know whats" do.

He didn't get to be governor because he was popular. Now he has to pay back. Never mind the lies he told before. Lie first, obey next.