{"id":3248,"date":"2009-09-10T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2009-09-10T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T01:18:21","slug":"make-it-happen-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/09\/10\/make-it-happen-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Happen, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Marcotte is on a mission to protect traditional marriage<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And I am 100% in support of his efforts.\u00c2\u00a0 What is he trying to do?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s asking the people of California to step up and help him put the “2010 California Protection of Marriage Act” on the ballot.\u00c2\u00a0 The act reads:<\/p>\n

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SECTION 1.\u00c2\u00a0 Title.\u00c2\u00a0 This act shall be known as the \u00e2\u20ac\u01532010<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>California Protection of Marriage Act.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

SECTION 2.\u00c2\u00a0 Section 7.6 is added to Article I of the California Constitution, to read:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

No party to any marriage shall be restored to the state of an unmarried person during the lifetime of the other party unless the marriage is void or voidable, as set forth in Part 2 of Division 6 of the Family Code.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, no divorces.\u00c2\u00a0 At all.\u00c2\u00a0 One you’re married, that’s it.*\u00c2\u00a0 Some might object, saying that that this is giving the state far too much power of the lives of two consenting adults.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But as Marcotte explained, in a recent interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[s]ometimes other people need to sacrifice in order to protect my ideas about traditional marriage. It’s just a fact of life. It’s not about their soul-sucking sham of a marriage, it’s about what we value as a society. We live in a divorce-promiscuous society. It’s on the television, it’s in movies, the newspapers. It’s even in our kids textbooks. I’m Catholic. In my religion, divorce is a sin — completely impermissable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And how does he think he’s going to do this?<\/p>\n

We’re going to set up a table in front of Wal*Mart and ask people to sign a petition to protect traditional marriage. We’re going to interview them about why they thing traditional marriage is important, and then we’ll tell them that we are trying to ban divorce.<\/p>\n

People who supported Prop 8 weren’t trying to take rights away from gays, they just wanted to protect traditional marriage. That’s why I’m confident that they will support this initiative, even though this time it will be their rights that are diminished. To not support it would be hypocritical.<\/p>\n

We’re also going to collect signatures in front of “Faces,” the largest gay nightclub in Sacramento.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get on it, California.<\/p>\n

*Okay, some<\/em> marriages might be not be forever.\u00c2\u00a0 Marcotte does acknowledge that “[t]he only exception would be if the marriage was “voidable” — if you married an 8-year-old, you don’t get to keep her. She goes back on the shelf. You can’t marry the mentally incapacitated, etc.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Marcotte is on a mission to protect traditional marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 And I am 100% in support of his efforts.\u00c2\u00a0 What is he trying to do?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s asking the people of California to step up and help him put the “2010 California Protection of Marriage Act” on the ballot.\u00c2\u00a0 The act reads: SECTION 1.\u00c2\u00a0 Title.\u00c2\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3],"tags":[398,399,397,190],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-society","tag-2010-california-protection-of-marriage-act","tag-ballot-initiative","tag-john-marcotte","tag-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}