What to expect if Prop 8 fails

Some good info from NOM, National Organization for Marriage

Gay marriage is not private, it's public; it's not about tolerance, it's active affirmation; and if we don't win on Prop 8, church groups and religious individuals are going to be in the government's crosshairs.

What happens if we fail to speak now for marriage? This week, two Canadians offered "Same-sex marriage: Lessons from Canada."

"The right to practice religion freely has not fared well against gay equality rights," note the Canadians. "We see this most clearly through the human rights tribunals. In British Columbia, the Catholic Knights of Columbus were fined for declining to host a lesbian couple's wedding reception. Chris Kempling, a teacher, was disciplined by the teachers' governing body for a letter to the editor about homosexuality and in Alberta, on May 30, 2008, a pastor, Stephen Boissoin, was fined for the same, and ordered never to speak 'discriminatorily' on the topic of homosexuality again."

Bottom line? "Where gay rights triumph, new rights battles begin."

The latest news report from the Associated Press suggest something equally extraordinary: so far we are out-fundraising gay marriage advocates. "Supporters
have raised $19.2 million so far, while opponents have raised $13.6 million...." Wow! The word on the street for years has been that "nobody really cares about marriage." Even as Americans voted time and time again (in 27 states!) for marriage as the union of husband and wife, gay marriage advocates, tapping elite networks like Hollywood, typically outspent pro-marriage campaigns by margins of 10 or 20 to one. (In Wisconsin, in 2006, gay marriage advocates spent over $4 million to defeat a marriage amendment; marriage advocates spent just $167,000. And we won anyway!)

Marriage is "the cradle of life and love." -Pope Benedict XVI