According to this article, we may need to endure another round of efforts to permit gay marriage - all they need is 700,000 signatures to put this on the ballot. This reports a new petition circulating for a proposed proposition - the proposal is to remove the word "marriage" from the California Constitution and replacing it with "domestic partnership." The goal is to return the word to religious organizations, and leave the secular with the generic phrase to describe civil unions.
I predict another very close vote, dependent on who shows up to vote and how much Mormons and dentists [go see how many dentists in your neighborhood contributed to defeat Prop. 8] are willing to spend to defeat gay marriage in this state.
Maybe it's time to re-think the whole idea of citizen generated propositions that change the state's constitution with a simple majority vote of those who show up at any given election. We tend to think that our constitutions should take more effort and more support to make changes.
