Poll: Californian’s Agaisnt Marriage Vote
November 7, 2009 by Gay Agenda News Team
A majority of California voters opposes putting the issue of gay marriage back on the ballot for another referendum.
According to a just-released survey by the new polling team of The Times and the University of Southern California, a small majority of Californians favors the right of gay couples to marry.
But a far larger proportion of the 1,500 registered voters in the new poll opposes putting the issue back on another statewide ballot next year. This week Maine became the 31st state where voters, in effect, defeated the idea of gay marriage in a statewide vote.
Not surprisingly, same-sex-marriage views were sharply polarized by political party; 66% of Democrats thought it should be legal and 71% of Republicans opposed it. Nonpartisan voters were less enthusiastic than Democrats but still backed it, 59% to 34%.
So, they’re OK to vote to remove rights from gays… but they’re NOT ok to vote to give those same rights back? Bunch of fracking hypocrites.
That’s ONE serious problem with the American model of democracy: acquired rights should NOT be eligible to be put up for a vote. An acquired right, whether it be gained through legislative or judicial means, is an acquired right. There should be absolutely NO mechanism for changing that status.
I can’t imagine a single situation where a group could acquire a right, and that it be conceivable to remove that right at a later date. There is a major flaw in the American system.
“There is a major flaw in the American system”
Yes there is, fear is in control and that’s the flaw. Once people stop letting fear control them there will be equality.
The flaw is in the state’s constitutions that allows for voting on people’s civil rights. In D.C., this is not allowed by the DC Human Rights Act.