California Passes Anti-Gay Marriage Legislation

Proposition 8, the California measure that bans same-sex marriage, passed by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin. What reasons did people give for voting for it?

17% Always vote yes to everything

5% Proposition was a lot of reading

11% Thought it would be last good opportunity to deny someone civil rights

2% Unhappily married gay people too lazy to get a divorce

4% Still trying to prove not gay after that one night with Sean

16% Marriages are already gay enough

.001% Love and support their son Frederick, but didn’t want to see him make a mistake by marrying that good-for-nothing Manuel