California should ban marriage all together

Today is a sad day in my home state of California.  On the same night that our nation proved we could move past hundreds of years of racism by electing Barack Obama president, California took one giant step backwards in to the bigotry corner.  With the passage of California Proposition 8 , the state's population took a look at one whole segment of the population and said "You aren't good enough."

The residents of California, where many of my friends and much of my family still lives, should be ashamed.   The ability of people to vote out of fear and hatred to forcibly remove rights from people is simply unthinkable.  If the "family values" group is really determined to "protect marriage" then they need to outlaw divorce, or better yet, marriage all together.  To protect something completely, eliminate it completely.

Which is why I am proposing the following.  I will donate $50 to any and all of the following ballot proposals in the state of California.  Since the passage of proposition 8 is a clear violation of equal protection statues, then that means the rest of the bill of rights and societal norms are up for grabs now.  So, let's get to mending:

• Ban on marriage outright.  We all know that 100% of divorces are caused by marriage.  Eliminate marriage then the divorce problem in this nation is solved.
  
• Tax exempt status for churches removed.  The first amendment to the US constitution expressly forbids a state sponsored religion.  Yet a tax exempt status for religious groups is obviously sponsoring them.  In addition, religious groups that have chosen to interject their beliefs in to secular society need to have their tax exempt status removed.
• 100% complete ban on guns.  Since the passage of proposition 8 has made the Fourteenth Amendment null and void, I am proposing we make the Second Amendment null and void to.  (For those of you who don't remember high school civics, the 14th amendment is the equal protection clause, the one that ironically lead to Obama getting elected last night).
• Reversal of proposition 8.  Nuf said.
• Forced sterilization of all heterosexuals.  (Now I'm just on a roll).

The rules for getting a proposition on the ballot in California is drop dead easy.  For $200 and between 440,000 and 700,000 signatures you too can have your very own ballot initiative.  With a state population of nearly 36.5 million people that works out to needing only 1.9% of the population signing your petition.  This gets to the root problem of the initiative process in California.  But that's a different rant.

So this is just my short list of new ballot proposals for the "great" state of California.

Feel free to add to this list as you see fit.

A great injustice was done.  It needs to be righted.