Nov 12 2008
Proposition 8’s Passage Sparks Nationwide Rallies
With the narrow passage of Proposition 8 on the California ballot, instant mass protests sprang up all across the state in the days after the election. Here in Southern California, thousands protested into the night a day later in West Hollywood, blocking streets and confronting the Mormon Church. More than 20,000 people showed up in Silver Lake and Hollywood on Saturday at a demonstration organized by the ANSWER Coalition and the LA Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights. Protests even spread to cities around the country, as part of a national day of protest against Prop 8. There is even some talk of boycotting businesses of people who donated money to pass the measure, and Mormon churches across the state are now considered targets because of their support for the measure. State and city officials are also doing their part: Forty-three members of the California Senate and Assembly filed a brief urging the state Supreme Court to void the proposition. Even Governor Schwarzenegger expressed hope that the Supreme Court could overturn it. Here in Los Angeles, two County supervisors, Yaroslavsky and Molina plan to try today to get the five-member Board of Supervisors to challenge the legality of Prop 8. There exists a lot of debate about why the measure passed. Some of the points of discussion include the fact that 73% of African Americans and 53% of Latinos supported the measure; that the No on 8 Campaign was not effective enough; and that opponents of Prop 8 did not donate enough money to the campaign in time to reverse the numbers.
GUESTS: Reverend Neil Thomas, Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, Sikivu Hutchinson, editor of BlackFemLens.org, Carlos Alvarez, organizer with the ANSWER coalition and the LA Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights
2 Responses to “Proposition 8’s Passage Sparks Nationwide Rallies”
THIS PROPOSITION OUGHT TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Iam a moderate Democrat and i voted yes on 8. I do not look at this as a moral issue as much as a constitutional issue. It has to do with the fact that laws are being made around the country to take away the rights of Christians in favor of gay rights. Christians are attacked and their churches are violated by gay militants and the mainstream media does not comment on it. SHAME on the media and shame on the gay community! And btw, I marched against the Briggs Amendment in the 70s. My parents and I helped a gay friend when he was homeless and his daughter was taken away from him.. he was given room and board for free and my parents helped him get his daughter back. The self-righteousness of the gay militants is appalling. It is okay for them to invade churches and to resort to violence, to scream blasphemies and obscenities and then say they are only asking for their “civil rights.” Their lies remind me of the Communist propaganda that one heard in the 60s.The gays are not helping their cause by their froward behavior. And the moderates have been the ones standing up for them and we no longer will do that. They are awakening a sleeping dragon and if they think that Christians and other Americans will go quietly into their long dark night of politically correctness and allow them to take away OUR right to free speech, freedom of religion and the press they are sadly mistaken