Proposition 8 was very important for me, other Christians who believe in the authority of the Bible and apparently, judging on the success of Prop 8, many hundreds of thousands of others in California.

For those who chose to listen the arguments against same sex marriage are very persuasive:

• Marriage had been defined as between one man and one woman for millennia
• The objective of marriage is first and foremost procreation and the raising of children. Of course, for same sex couples, procreation is completely out of the question without artificial means. There is much evidence that children need the love and nurture of both a father and mother.
• Same sex marriage would force many people in the service industry (i.e. hotel owners, wedding photographers, local government employees etc) to either go against their consciences and heartfelt religious beliefs or be subject to law suits.
• Religious organizations providing adoption services would be forced to close (as already happened to a Catholic adoption agency in Massachusetts).
• Schools will be forced to teach young children that same-sex marriage is no different from traditional marriage - and parents will have no choice in the matter (this has also happened in Massachusetts). In fact the No on 8 campaign shot itself well and truly in the foot when it had the superintendent of California schools saying that schools are not required to teach about same sex marriage while at the same time the news broke that a group of kindergärtners had been taken on a school trip to a lesbian wedding in San Francisco.
• Churches will be forced to conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies or be found guilty of discrimination.
• If same-sex marriage were made legal, then on what moral grounds could anyone say that a father and his adult daughter could not marry? Or what about two brothers? Or perhaps a group of men and a woman? After all the 'no on 8' crowd keeps saying that people should be allowed to marry anyone they love.
• The 'no on 8' campaign unsuccessfully tried to present the idea that unless we have same-sex marriage, some people have been discriminated against. This is simply untrue. Under the California Family Code, “domestic partners shall have all the rights, protections and benefits” of married spouses.

Despite the fact that we won (and so did similar measures in Florida and Arizona) there are several things in the aftermath of the Prop 8 vote that disturb me.

I live in a fairly conservative city, but there were a few 'no on 8' signs dotted around the city. Many of them mentioned 'hate.' In other words, in the very small minds of the opposition, if you were pro 8 you are a hateful bigot. I predict that the next move for homosexual strategists will be bring in so-called “hate speech’ laws. These effectively silence any dissenting voice against unfettered sexual anarchy. Of course, this has already happened in Canada, the UK and Sweden. Canadian Stephen Boisson of Alberta, faced jail time for writing a letter to a local newspaper critical of tax dollars used to fund homosexual activism. And Swedish pastor Ake Green, who was given a 30-day prison sentence for preaching a sermon on the book of Romans. Or British doctor, Dr Muhammad Siddiq, who was suspended for a year for linking gay people with many sexually-transmitted diseases .

From the small sampling of teenagers that I know, it appears that they have swallowed the gay propaganda that they have been subjected to all their lives. Most of them seem to have bought into the idea that same sex marriage is some sort of civil rights issue.

Yes on 8 signs have been regularly stolen or destroyed and an elderly couple in Carlsbad were viciously attacked and beaten by their neighbor for having a 'yes on 8' sign in their yard.

What really ticks me off, though, is that if the "no on 8" proponents really believed that same sex marriage is such a sacred right and a terrible injustice has been done of the last 4,000 years, why on earth have they not mentioned it until now?