Are you against Christian Sharia Law?

You're lying again. You really need to work on that.

First you said that perhaps the ballot was poorly written so the voters didn't understand it. That's a paraphrase, but that is what you said.

I hate liars.

Here are your exact words. "One thought is that people didn't know what they were voting on because the wording was confusing."

What do you base your opinion on?

Let's start with the "right to life". How can you be for allowing abortion on demand and then say you believe in the "right to life"?

Here are your exact words. "One thought is that people didn't know what they were voting on because the wording was confusing."

Actually, California voted to make same sex marriage illegal. At the time of the vote, the state allowed it. In terms of the black community, I don't know what your asking. Is there some special relationship between the black community and homosexuals that you're implying? As for how the vote came to be, I have plenty of thoughts. One thought is that people didn't know what they were voting on because the wording was confusing. To vote "yes" in the affirmative was to take away marriage rights, which is confusing if you think the question is (as you yourself framed it) whether you'd like "to make homosexual marriage legal."

What do you base your opinion on?

Prop. 8 leaves some voters puzzled
Confusion reigns in the fight over the effort to ban same-sex unions. Does yes mean no and no mean yes?
October 31, 2008
by Jessica Garrison

Speaking out recently against Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown made an appeal for the importance of protecting the rights of same-sex couples. And then he urged his audience to vote yes on the proposition.

Brown misspoke. He intended to advocate a no vote. But he isn't alone in confusing which side is which. As election day nears, both supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 worry that voters will be confused by a choice that can seem counterintuitive: Voting no on the initiative means voting yes on gay marriage, while voting yes means gay marriage would be disallowed.


"There is confusion on both sides over yes meaning no and no meaning yes," said West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran, who is helping campaign for No on 8. He added, jokingly, that he has heard supporters of the proposition say, "I'm opposed to gay marriage, so I'm voting no, and I'm like, 'Yes, vote no.' "

In recent days, both campaigns have taken steps to educate their faithful to make sure they vote the right way.

"We changed our advertising to make sure people understood what a yes means and what a no means," said Jeff Flint, strategist for the yes side. "We were getting a lot of people who were saying, 'I'm against gay marriage, so I'm voting no.' "

Opponents have undertaken a similar effort.

Both sides are urging volunteers to make sure the people to whom they reach out understand which way to mark the ballot.

In general, political experts say, the "no" side on ballot measures has a slight advantage because many voters instinctively chafe at the idea of new laws and their default instinct is to oppose them.

As the race over the most hotly contested social issue in the nation heads into the final stretch, both sides also ramped up their campaigns in recent days, with bus tours, rallies and volunteer efforts to get out the vote, along with fundraising pleas, e-mail blasts and an explosion of advertising. And, of course, accusations of malfeasance on both sides.

The no side this week began airing an ad from Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, one of the state's most popular politicians, in which she says it "would be a terrible mistake for California. . . . No matter how you feel about marriage, vote against discrimination."

Then, on Thursday, a group of Silicon Valley heavyweights, including founders and executives at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Adobe and other companies, announced they were taking out a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News urging people to vote no.

The campaign also continued to release a flurry of e-mail blasts, including an announcement that a group of pediatricians was voting no and that women politicians were holding a candlelight vigil in East L.A. to oppose the measure.

Officials on the yes side, meanwhile, said they expected more than 50,000 volunteers to work to get out the vote from now until election day.

Supporters of the measure have also been gathering on street corners with signs urging people to vote yes.

You didn't have to mention the "African American Community".

Renaldo Dubois wrote:

According to you, 70% of blacks in California are against human rights.

No more than the Caucasian, Hispanic, or Asian people who voted for Prop 8. Why are you focusing on one community?

They were the only ones we were talking about.

If you were talking about others then you were the one who is mistaken here. I accept your apology.

African Americans were the only people I mentioned. Don't blame me for your racism. First you deny that you ever said it...Lie #1. Then you lie about the fact that African Americans were the only people I mentioned.....Lie #2.

Go take your mom out for dinner. You need a break.

African Americans were the only ones mentioned in the original post which was mine. You lose again.

So why would minorities be against human rights for gays?

So why would minorities be against human rights for gays?