Wouldn’t you deal with them the same way you would on the abortion issue? There are many Christians on the pro-choice side of the issue despite the insistence from some religious groups that the Bible can only support the pro-life side. Why would this be different?
I’m not convinced that this issue is solely split on religious grounds. It’s hard to deny that the base support comes from religious interests, but the vote was so close that some people who aren’t religious but supported the proposition could have made the difference.
Something that Miller posted to magellan01 in the “Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period.” thread struck me:
While I agree that conservative atheists who are pro-choice and pro-gay rights might not be the majority voting block, I also wonder how many people fit under this category.
Looking at the voting from Santa Clara county, not a very religious place in my experience, there were 290, 027 (44.2%) people voting yes and 365,535 (55.8%) people voting no on 8. While I couldn’t find any statistics, I don’t believe there are 44% of the population that is religious and certainly not fundamentalist religious.
In the same election, there were 460,128 (69.6%) people voting for Obama and 189,299 (28.7%) people voting for McCain from the same county.
It seems odd to me that with 70% of people voting democratic in the Presidential election, there would be only 56% of people voting no on 8. Could some, not insignificant number of those people, who voted yes on 8 in this election have been atheists who are pro-choice and pro-gay rights?
Does anyone have other explanations for this seeming discrepancy?