This issue is very personal to me and I hope I don't offend anyone as that is not my intention. Hopefully the following links will help you (and your friends/family/co-workers) make an educated decision on Nov. 4th. If there are any more links that you are aware of please let me know!
The NoOnProp8 campaign has stated on their website, "Prop 8 isn't about schools, religion, children, doctors or courts." I don't see how they can argue this. Adoption agencies have been sued, doctors have been sued, teachers are reading books to their students about gay couples, Catholic charities have been sued, and more you can check out
here. Marriage is about families and children. It is NOT only going to affect the two people involved in the relationship. It is going to affect everybody in the state of California (and consequently the US and world).
If we undermine the traditional definition of marriage, then soon enough there won't be any definition of marriage at all.
We can make a choice to vote on this issue, but we cannot choose the consequences of our choices. Do we really want to chance changing what God has established from Adam and Eve?
***Updated*** http://preservingmarriage.blogspot.com***Updated*** http://leahjaynesblog.blogspot.com/-- This person has done a lot of research on prop 8 and is very open minded (but for prop 8)
***Updated*** http://whatisprop8.com/
***Updated*** http://www.afa.net/prop8video/index.html***Updated*** Evidence of one-way tolerance and freedom of speech limited:
http://www.protectmarriage.com/article/opponents-of-traditional-marriage-engage-in-dirty-tricks***Updated*** http://www.catholicvote.com/***Updated*** First-Graders attend Same-Sex Marriage ceremony -- Think students won't be taught about same-sex marriage? Think again... they already are in California apparently.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1815825713 ----Tony Perkins FRC about parents with children in Massachusetts and what they are going through.
The Divine Insitution of Marriage -- Statement by the LDS church
http://preservingmarriage.org -- Website put out by the LDS church
http://protectmarriage.com -- Website put out by the Yes on Prop 8 coalition
https://www.icontribute.us/protectmarriage/initiative/firstademail --This is an ad put together for California voters but it shows the opposition and the importance that they place on this proposition.
http://www.protectmarriage.com/video/view/5 -- This is the second ad showing on television
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91486191 -- Catholic charities and businesses are being sued for refusing to serve gay married couples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GRQGc5GQ0 -- "Save the Family" song written by Janice Kapp Perry and Joy Lundberg
Blog entry from Leah (my way-cool sister-in-law)
"And now it came to pass that when Moroni, who was the chief commander of the armies of the Nephites, had heard of these dissensions, he was angry with Amalickiah.
"And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
"And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land—" -- Alma 46:11-13
"Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets." -- The Family: A Proclamation to the World
