If you haven’t voted yet, make sure you vote in favor of Proposition 3. While court cases have *blocked* 2008’s language defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, that language is still in the state constitution.

And as we’ve seen with, for example, Arizona’s pre-Civil-War law about abortion being reactivated when Roe vs. Wade was overturned, all it takes is another court case.

Proposition 3 removes that language entirely and replaces it with an affirmation of the right to marry, future-proofing marriage equality.

Out of curiosity, before I filled out my ballot the other day, I looked to see who was arguing against it. (California’s ballot guides can include up to 4 arguments per proposition: 1 in favor, 1 against, and a rebuttal to each.) I’d already decided to vote for it before it had collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. But I wondered: how would someone justify their opposition at this point?

The answer: badly. They trotted out the same old tired slippery slope arguments about people marrying their pets and whatever. And they disingenuously insisted that no one’s trying to overturn gay marriage (yet) so what are we worried about? 🙄

As if we haven’t seen the post-Dobbs landscape.

Once again: Vote for Prop 3 and get marriage discrimination out of our constitution, because otherwise you know some homophobes are going after it eventually.