The Los Angeles Times has a good editorial about Proposition 8 on the California ballot. For those of you who haven't been following the story, the CA Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in that state recently. As you might imagine this led to an immediate knuckledragger campaign to put together a proposition to ban same-sex marriage via the state's constitution.

The proponents of the ban have apparently resorted to scaring parents that voting no on the ban means that kids are going to be taught that gay marriage is okay (which is a bad thing, how?), but the ban has nothing to do with education, and everything to do with denying a basic human right to an American citizen.

A lesson about Prop. 8 (Los Angeles Times):
…With the defeat of this proposed ban on gay marriage, they say, schools would begin indoctrinating children ... This is emotional stuff for many parents. But the dry reality of California education law tells a different story. ... The law also gives schools the option of discussing gender, sexual orientation and family life, though that's not required as part of the more comprehensive program.

Most important, the law contains paragraph after paragraph guaranteeing parents the right to review the material being taught and to have their children excused from all or any part of it...

...The measure would do one thing: use the state Constitution as the device to take away an existing, fundamental right from a particular group of people, so that a loving adult in that group could not marry the person of his or her choice...…

I'll be following the status of Prop 8 closely today along with the presidential run. You can guess where I come down on this.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given what a wackaloon theist McCain's screwhead VP pick is, but just in case it wasn't obvious... Sarah Palin supports a federal Gay Marriage ban--because her religion frowns upon it, it should be illegal for people who don't share her religion. Basically, because she is arrogant.

...in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage. I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage...

Knuckledraggers love this witch. If McCain doesn't win, I expect we will be hearing from her again in 2012. Crooks and liars has the video and transcript of Palin's statement to CBN's David Brody.