It’s official. Equality California has announced that opponents of FAIR Education Act (a.k.a. Bill SB48) failed to get enough signatures to bring the LGBT-inclusive law to a vote.
Joe.My.God posted a message from StopSB48.com headquarters:
We Fought the Law and the Law Won
Unfortunately we did not collect enough signatures to qualify the referendum to overturn SB48. That law will be in place in our schools at the first of next year. We thank all of you that worked so hard to provide the hundreds of thousands of signatures received. In the end, 90 days was too short a time to accomplish such a large task. In the coming days you will see the celebration of our opponents. We know this because it has already started in social media and other places. And some of the rhetoric will be harsh. Remember, despite what they say about us, we opposed SB 48 simply because we do not believe that children should be exposed to an intentionally one-sided argument about lifestyles and values we do not hold.
Yes, please gird yourself—we all know the terrible, untrue rhetoric that gay people say about homophobes: How they’re disease-ridden child molesters who are going to hell. Oh wait, that’s what they say about us.
erasure25
I read that the liars will try again for the next ballot, whenever that is. They can’t re-use the same signatures, right?
B
Right – they’ll have to start all over again. Where they’d get a head start is if there is any money left over that they raised but didn’t spend. Also, they probably now have a perspective donor list, etc.
Skeloric
Funny thing though, they can TRY again but the public will have seen that SB48 did not cause the skies to rain blood or other such extreme statements that the bigots and haters declared WOULD HAPPEN and a large part of their chances to do as well as they did THIS time (which was, thankfully, already not good enough) will have evaporated.
All of their crazy talk can be proven wrong simply by pointing to other countries
where such did not occur and now also to those states in the US where the crazy claims never manifested either.
Its like trying to tell people that a 12 ounce can of soda will explode with lethal force if it is opened after shaking it for roughly 30 seconds.
Get a few people together to shake up those cans and open them with a large prybar to pop the top and see that no such explosion occurs — after awhile word gets around about the idiot who thinks that a shaken up can of soda will explode with lethal force.
The guy then trying to change tactics and simply talk about the soda fizzing all over and making a mess just doesn’t get people worked up.
Fizzing around and making a mess isn’t really a problem compared to “exploding soda cans of doomity-doom.
Stefan
If they are to try again it would have to be with a constitutional amendment since the law will be in effect January 1. A constitutional amendment requires many more signatures then a simple repeal, and considering how unenthusiastic the right was about this, they will face an uphill climb to say the least, assuming they even try.
Deliverance
Most help articles on the web are inaccurate or inhceroent. Not this!
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