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On November 4, 2008, a slight majority of voters in California voted to write discrimination into a constitution for the first time in American history.

Out of 12,564,890 votes cast, if just 251,805 had voted differently, gays and lesbians would still be able to marry the person they love. 

Prop 8 was failing by a wide margin until the Yes campaign began to lie about it.  While pretending to warn parents that their children would be exposed to gay marriage in school, they assured that virtually EVERY child in California would hear all about it from an endless barrage of television ads.   They shamefully used images of innocent children against the will of their parents to scare families.  But their campaign was never really about children or schools.  It was about denying love. 

6,030,641 people voted to allow gay people to marry the person they love.

To them we say

Thank you!

To those who did not, we ask for you to talk and pray with us.  Since so many churches have chosen to celebrate gay marriage, churches which do not should not be able to dictate the rules for everyone else.  Not in America.  Let each church decide for itself.  For we truly do hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal.  And that each of us should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves-Abraham Lincoln.

Amen.