Do you go to Farmers’ Market or drive by the Republican office downtown? Have you seen the signs people are walking around with that say “Prop 8 = Religious Freedom?” This is a deviant and deceptive way to sway uninterested voters to vote yes on it. Is that what it’s come to? So I can walk around farmers then, with a sign that reads “Prop 8 = Drinking babies blood”?
Proposition 8, for those of you who don’t know, is a proposition to add the words “between a man and a woman” into the state constitution with regards to the definition of marriage. Shooting that down (voting no on Prop 8) in no way hinders religious freedom. Likewise, promoting it (voting yes on Prop 8) in no way enables religious freedom. For this fact, walking around downtown with a sign that reads “Prop 8 = Religious Freedom,” is BRAINWASHING!
Since the California Supreme Court’s ruling to allow gay marriage in this state, there have been religious fanatics trying to prevent it in any way possible. Prop 8 is what they came up with. If it’s added to the constitution that marriage is “between a man and a woman,” then gay marriage can no longer happen and all prior marriages of the sort are null and void.
You don’t have to be gay to realize what’s going on here. You don’t have to be gay to be in favor of gay marriage legality. Voting no on Prop 8 means freedom to marry for ALL.
Kevin Ersoy
San Luis Obispo resident