Dramatic Progressive Reforms and Evil Schemes on the California Ballot

http://www.alternet.org/election08/105628/dramatic_progressive_reforms_and_evil_schemes_on_the_california_ballot/
11/1/2008

This election, California voters have a huge opportunity -- and a special responsibility -- to vote on dramatic progressive reforms that will protect people's civil rights, and reject arbitrary and oppressive policies. The outcome of these measures have national implications; the fight over Proposition 8, a discriminatory attempt to ban same-sex marriage, is the focus of national attention. A wide array of liberal and progressive civil rights groups, unions and grass roots organizations are battling hard to stop the Christian Right's bigoted efforts to enshrine a doctrine of "separate but equal" in the state's constitution. Despite the Mormon Church's huge financial investment in destroying gays and lesbians' chance to share the same civil rights as their fellow citizens, California voters have a chance to reject, once and for all, a policy that deprives LGBT people of their full civil rights.