Posted on 05/28/2008 8:12:55 AM PDT by SmithL
The California Supreme Court's historic declaration that same-sex couples can marry will be tested in November when voters face a measure that would enact a constitutional ban on such marriages – and two new polls indicate that it will be a close one.
The court set aside a 2000 ballot measure that barred recognition of same-sex marriages but, the new polls indicate, voters have been moving the other way.
A Los Angeles Times poll of registered voters, taken on May 20-21, a few days after the Supreme Court decision, found that 51 percent disapproved of the Supreme Court's decree, while 43 percent approved.
Field Research, meanwhile, began polling a day after the May 16 decision, and found that 51 percent of registered voters approve of same-sex marriage rights, with 42 percent opposed. That was a virtual flip from just two years earlier, when a Field Poll found that 44 percent approved of same-sex marriages and 50 percent were opposed.
The state's third major poll, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, has yet to test sentiment in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision, but its last poll on the issue, nearly a year ago, found that 49 percent of voters disapproved of same-sex marriage and 45 percent approved of it, also a much narrower margin than previously recorded.
The proposed ballot measure would place this proviso in the state constitution and presumably immune to Supreme Court interpretation: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Election officials are checking signatures on petitions that anti-gay marriage groups circulated to place the measure before voters. Sponsors have asked the Supreme Court to suspend its ruling until voters utter the last word. Meanwhile, local officials are gearing up for a wave of applications ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"So what happens to all those couples who got married already? What are you going to tell them about their marriages???"
... in an effort to guilt people into voting against the amendment.
(That they didn't happen. Annulled.)
The fruits will soon be on a legal par with the flakes and nuts that make up our "wonderful" Granola State.
OPPOSE WITH VIGOR!!!
....it’s not too close for me to make the call....traditional man-woman marriage will win....just like it has in all the other states where it was on the ballot....then the queers will take it to a liberal court to get it over turned.
It does not require a great deal in the way of analytical prowess to see that this is on the horizon.
The voters already spoke on this issue in a ballot initiative.
SUPPORT WITH VIGOR!!!
Without an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect traditional marriage, I think you are spot on in your predictions.
It will be an uphill battle in CA, but I hope the folks supporting the amendment don't lose heart because of these polls, many of which are designed specifically for that purpose.
:::blush:::
I mean oppose same sex marriage WITH VIGOR. “;^)
Cherry-picked sample in that poll?
Ya know, I seem to recall them saying stuff just like this BOTH times we voted on this before. Funny, though, it never seemed to work that way after the ballots were counted.
We who live in the Soviet Republic of Ca., know that we keep voting and seeing just how hopeless the brainwashed socialist pacifists are out here nowadays. It is as if they all went to Berkeley or Harvard and forgot any moral applications or clarity that our Republic once knew. My guess is, God isn’t very happy with the Golden State.
In elections involving a Black candidate against a White candidate in a mixed district we see the bradley effect. We have come to see the hillary effect and now we will see the bruce effect. Don’t bet that the 61% who voted against gay “marriage” have been converted by thugs in black robes. I say it will be 61% or higher against this time as well.
The first poll released on the issue— conveniently absent form this article — showed a 53-34% margin in favor of the amendment.
Once again, using the courts, the liberal minority spits in the face of the majority. How long can this go on? Sadly most of us who pay the taxes that are used to support these liberal thugs actually have to hold down jobs and raise families, unlike the welfare population, union supported thugs and wealthy elite who seem to be the only ones with the power and time to put thru their agendas. Too bad the conservatives can’t simply withhold the GOP tax dollars and watch the courts and government collapse on what it gets from the non-tax-paying welfare recipient and the elite who use tax breaks and tax loop-holes to keep their money in their own pockets. Make the libs pay their own tab.
John McCain’s Presidential campaign should benefit from this. The voters will support traditional marriage, and it’s not likely to be close, media bias notwithstanding.
Its difficult to poll issues like gay marriage due to the “Wilder” effect. People asked by Pollsters may decline to reveal their true feelings about gay marriage out of fear of being politically incorrect.
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