Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Looking at the Initiatives

Looking at the Initiatives

When they were given a chance to make straight up and down votes on social conservative issues, even places like California seem to do the right thing--which makes me think that the crowd who thought that McCain could beat Obama because he wasn't very conservative don't really understand this. From the CNN roundup, around 10:00 PM PST:

In Arizona, it's the second time around, but it appears that the voters have passed a ban on gay marriage.

In California, they are still counting the votes, but a ban on gay marriage overturning the California Supreme Court is ahead.

Florida's ban on gay marriage is way ahead.

Arkansas's ban on gay couples adopting is also out ahead.

On that last one, let me emphasize that intrinsically, I don't have a problem with gay couples adopting kids. But states that allow it end up opening the door to all the rest of the madness that goes along with it: sexual orientation antidiscrimination laws; civil unions; and when civil unions aren't enough, gay marriage imposed by the courts. So as much as I would like to leave the adoption option open to gay couples, it doesn't seem as though there's much choice in the matter.

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