http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/lies-dirty-tricks-and-45-million-k...
This past election, California voters shot down an initiative to put labels on GMO foods, which adds to a puzzle about California other states do not understand.
Namely, how a state with more support for gay people and more anti-science hippies than any state in the country can be 'against' gay marriage and labels on food. isn't this state 66% Democrats?
Well, of course, Californians are not against gay marriage and food labels at all but no one likes bad laws and in both cases the original efforts were designed to fool people into agreeing to lawsuits.
In the case of labeling GM food, the people behind Proposition 37 said they would never sue olive oil makers who claimed their olive oil was all natural if it contained only olives - but the wording of the law said the could. In the case of gay marriage, it became law because a fisheries-research measure, Assembly Bill 849, was amended to include language approving gay marriage. But Proposition 22 in the year 2000 had already defined marriage and instead of doing a new initiative, AB 849 attempted to circumvent it. Proponents said they would never sue churches who did not want to conduct gay marriages.
Now, it would take too long to explain why it even came up but it is basically the reciprocal nature of states. A marriage in one state is valid in all states so if states started marking their own rules, it creates a big mess. California obviously already had domestic partnerships and corporations had their own policies that went far beyond state minimums.
They wanted to use courts to force the decision. The obvious solution was to let people decide. Everyone is all for gay people, it just had to be clearly written so as not to have loopholes where churches can be sued. If it is just about love and recognition and legal rights, it is a non-issue. No one can force a Catholic priest to marry them today and get rich in a lawsuit if they don't.
So when the new Proposition came up and Attorney General Jerry Brown amended the title from "Limit on Marriage" to "Eliminates the Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry", people who were ordinarily all for gay marriage suddenly saw lawsuit bait.
Who is the Governor of California right now? Jerry Brown.
Who was opposed to gay marriage? Everyone except white people. Blacks were only 49% in favor while Koreans were 70 % opposed.
"It is our contention that their behavior was illegal in violation of Massachusetts law. This has nothing to do with canon law or what the church believes. It has to do with Massachusetts law," said Sergio Carvajal, Beret's attorney.
But with Proposition 37, California voters already knew that claims of 'this is a start, we can just fix it' were being made by either clueless people or people lying about it. A voter referendum cannot be fixed or modified, that is why you go around the legislature.
