Is this politics, or is this civil rights?

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In California one of the things we'll be voting on is Proposition 8. If passed, it would add the following wording to the California State Constitution:

"Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

An identical proposition passed in 2000 but was ruled "unconstitutional" by the CA State Supreme Court because it discriminates against a segment of the population.

If it passes again, the court is likely to make the same ruling, just as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled anti-flag-burning legislation as "unconstitutional."

I don't know what percentage of the California population is gay, but nonetheless, such a law would only legalize active discrimination, just as the "separate but equal" laws did years ago. What I don't understand is why the supporters of this proposition are so adamant to try to legislate discrimination which, if passed, will be overturned yet again.

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The largest percentage of contributions monetarily is coming from the mormon cult. Salt Lake City has had at least 2 pronouncements read in church on Sundays telling people not only to support Proposition 8, but to contribute to it and to get people to support it by going around house to house in California. I've heard stories of people being taken to task by their local "ecclesiastical authorities" (I put the term in quotes because there is no training involved in becoming a mormon bishop or higher) because they do not contribute. In addition, there was the brouhaha about a straight mormon in the midwest who was sick and tired of the cult's support of Proposition 8 that he set up a website for mormons who agreed with him to send a letter to the cult's offices in Salt Lake City. He was almost excommunicated, then it appears that the court of public opinion may have delayed it because if and when it happens, it'll make the national news and show the organization to be what it truly is - a cult.