The debate is hot with both sides accusing the other of dishonesty (so what else is new in politics, right?). Wikipedia has a non-partisan description of the proposition, the language, and the major groups in support and opposition. (The Wiki opinion poll data is only shown through May 2008).
I certainly believe Gays should have equal rights. My concern is about what will happen to society and to the children if the Proposition does not pass. But let me ask you another related question...one which was posed by a site supporting a NO vote on Prop 8: "Where will it end?" The NO vote site (and others I have read) suggested that if the government has the right to decide who can and who cannot marry, then maybe some day the government will decide you or I cannot marry whom we will.
My question is exactly the same, only on the reverse: Where will it end? If marriage becomes defined as something other than one man and one woman, what is to stop marriage from being defined as one man and many women (polygyny) or even one woman with many men (polyandry). Or even polygynandry, meaning group marriage....or sororal polygyny which is a type of marriage in which two or more sisters share a husband.
Where does it end? Or maybe it should not end? If the cry from gays deserves equality, why not the cry from polygamists, polygynists, polygnandrists, or soral people? You decide? If we open this floodgate, where will it end....and who will drown? That question is next!