Thursday, August 14, 2008

Prop 8 Wording Changed

This was a recent thing the CA Attorney General did. He changed the wording of Proposition 8- The Save Marriage proposition. All propositions are supposed to be neutral.

Petitions circulated to qualify the initiative for the ballot said the
measure would amend the state Constitution "to provide that only marriage
between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in
California."

In a move made public last week and applauded by
same-sex marriage proponents, the attorney general's office changed the language
to say that Proposition 8 seeks to "eliminate the right of same-sex couples
to marry."

Jennifer Kerns, spokeswoman for the Protect Marriage coalition, called the
new language "inherently argumentative" and said it could "prejudice voters
against the initiative."

What do you think? Does the language contain a negative bias? I think it does. It is sad when the voters vote on an initiative, Prop 22, and the court decides on its own to overturn the people on this. And then the deck gets stacked in favor of a minority of people to make those standing for traditional marriage sound like mean, "rights-eliminators".

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