California marriage bill

"Earned Media" reports:

The California legislature once again flouted the will of the people by passing a homosexual marriage bill from the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Passed on a party line vote, AB 43 would allow "gender neutral" marriage in California. This directly contradicts the people's will in passing Proposition 22, which clearly stated marriage in California is between one man and one woman.

And the will of the people is always so perfect? Remember, it used to be the will of the people that people who weren't white couldn't have civil rights, yet today we recognize that that was horribly wrong in every way.

"Yet again the California legislature has shown that it will arrogantly ignore the will of the people," stated Karen England, Executive Director of Capitol Resource Institute. "Even though the vast majority of citizens oppose homosexual marriage, radical activists continue to push their agenda."

The vast majority? What, exactly, is this "vast majority"?

"61% of California voters believe that traditional marriage is so important that we must protect it," continued England.

61% isn't a "vast majority". It's a little bit over half. Further, when Ms. England claims that 61% believe that "traditional marriage" is so important, she's... well, let's be polite and say she's not factually correct. What would be more true would be to say that 61% believed that gay marriage must be legally stopped, when Proposition 22 was passed, 7 years ago. In the past decade, opposition to gay marriage has dropped significantly. It's even possible that a majority of citizens of California now support civil marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. But, Ms. England presents a 7 year old statistic as if it was current. That's a rather significant error regarding a contemporary issue about which opinion is changing very quickly.