Proposition 8

Skipping into the kitchen, holding a children's book, a young girl smiles: "Mom! Guess what I learned in school today. I learned how prince married a prince and that I can marry a princess!"


The scene fades to the background and a man in a suit, Professor Richard Peterson of Pepperdine University School of Law, appears and asks with ominous intonation: "Think it can happen? It has already happened." He then proceeds to talk about how children in Massachussets are being taught about gay marriage since that state allowed same sex unions.


The commercial goes on to state that gay marriage should not be legal because it should be up to the parents whether their kids are taught about same sex marriages in school. In short, whether gay marriage is legalized in California is a parental rights issue, according to this clip.


At risk of making my blog too political, I think this is wrong. The campaign against allowing people who love each other call their union a marriage upsets me and having this commercial and many and others like it pass by on my TV is revolting. I fail to see how same sex marriage has anything to do with parental rights.


A man flanked by his own three year-old girl even came to my door to lobby for proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage in California. Proposition 8 is on the ballot on Nov. 4, the same day people here will elect the next U.S. president. It was put on the ballot after the California Supreme Court decided that same sex couples should be able to marry.


If this is supposed to be the "land of the free" than some people are awfully worried about what others are doing with their lives and what label they get to put on their union. That shouldn't be anybody else's business.


Now, please let me vote to remove those awful ads, funded by some $25 million fund, from my TV. And if you're allowed to vote in California, please vote No on Proposition 8.