CMA Ballot Challenge Delayed to 2012?

Jessica Garrison reports on an LATimes.com blog that some marriage neutering advocates in California, led by the Orwellian-named "Equality California", have decided to wait until 2012 to try to repeal the California Marriage Amendment via the ballot - in other words, barring some other mitigating development (federal court decision to impose neutered marriage licensing on California), there will be another vote on marriage. This is instead of trying for an earlier ballot measure, which some other advocacy groups might still do. Some of the same people backing either effort asked us how we can even vote on marriage in the first place, and yet here they are planning to ask us to... vote on marriage.

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Cited as reasons to wait for 2012 were that some advocates of marriage neutering want more time to sway voters and raise funds (union dues, movie and theatre profits). Perhaps they also want to see if the federal lawsuit will be resolved before 2012? Those cases can take a while, though.

Californians can expect plenty of non-sequitors, appeals to emotion, efforts to desensitize youth reaching voting age to the uniqueness of bride+groom coupling, mocking of marriage, and various forms of intimidation over the next few years.

To counter, I recommend using my Handy Dandy Marriage Neutering Plea Repellant, and also convincing youth and the ambivalent in our spheres of influence about the importance of uniting the sexes in marriage.