Editor’s Note- Vote Smart is an informational series focused on the upcoming November ballot, and it runs ahead of the Election Day column Mark Your Ballot. Everything on the ballot – propositions, measures and candidates – will be addressed here before being summarized on November 5, 2024.
While we are looking around at current lawn signs, there was one in my neighborhood that stood out for it’s longevity. From the day that California passed the fundamentalist-funded Prop 8 decreeing that marriage was only between a man and a woman, in 2008, a neighbor of mine decided to leave her lawn sign against Prop 8 up until the matter was rectified. That was June of 2015, when SCOTUS ruled that marriage equality was the law of the land.
That was one tired, weather-worn lawn sign, and the owner of it was delighted to toss it out, at last.
However, marriage equality has yet to make it to the Constitution of the state of California.
Prop 3 puts that legal trip-wire to rest. With the current SCOTUS overturning citizen’s rights in harmful and historic ways, making sure the California Constitution is supporting equality is a good, basic thing to do.
Vote Yes.
Judith Martin-Straw
