Just Say No
Two points about the Proposition 8 campaign I mentioned the other day:
1) There’s a church on my commute route with a ‘No On Prop 8′ sign on its noticeboard. Possibly the first time I’ve *ever* approved of a church.
2) Turns out that people are telling pollsters that they’re going to support prop 8 after all because of, basically, a lie in the pro-camp’s advertising. The lie is that if Proposition 8 is defeated, churches that don’t perform same-sex marriages will lose their tax exempt status. People’s willingness to be told stuff rather than thinking it through for themselves never ceases to amaze me. I mean, think about it - the Proposition will remove the current ability for single-gender couples to marry, but its defeat won’t create any new legislation. Given that practically no churches perform these marriages anyway, and none of them have lost their tax-exempt status, why would that change?
Seriously, California: Think this through! You’re being lied to, and not even in a convincing way. The claim makes no sense, and your knee-jerk reaction to it doesn’t either.