In Church we have been called to read up about Proposition 8. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is supporting Propsition 8 in California. Proposition 8 is about changing 14 words in the California Constitution to be : "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."
We all know that when laws start passing in states (especially California) that other states will want to pass the same laws. Please go to the following websites to find out why this is such an important law to pass.
Our children and our families are at stake. Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN.
If the vote fails these are some of the consequences (whatisprop8.com)
1.) Children in public schools will have to be taught that same-sex marriage is just as good as traditional marriage.
2.) Churches may be sued over their tax exempt status if they refuse to allow same-sex marriage ceremonies in their religious buildings open to the public. Ask whether your pastor, priest, minister, bishop, or rabbi is ready to perform such marriages in your chapels and sanctuaries.
3.)Religious adoption agencies will be challenged by government agencies to give up their long-held right to place children only in homes with both a mother and a father. Catholic Charities in Boston already closed its doors in Massachusetts because courts legalized same-sex marriage there.
4.) Religions that sponsor private schools with married student housing may be required to provide housing for same-sex couples, even if counter to church doctrine, or risk lawsuits over tax exemptions and related benefits.
5.) Ministers who preach against same-sex marriages may be sued for hate speech and risk government fines. It already happened in Canada, a country that legalized gay marriage. A recent California court held that municipal employees may not say: "traditional marriage," or "family values" because, after the same-sex marriage case, it is "hate speech."
6.) It will cost you money. This change in the definition of marriage will bring a cascade of lawsuits, including some already lost (e.g., photographers cannot now refuse to photograph gay marriages; doctors cannot now refuse to perform artificial insemination of gays even given other willing doctors). Even if courts eventually find in favor of a defender of traditional marriage (highly improbable given today's activist judges), think of the money – your money – that will be spent on such legal battles.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints issued this Proclamation in 1995 about Families. This document sums up my testimony of families.
Please check this out and the other sites about Proposition 8. We need to protect what God has ordained as sacred- marriage.
