| ACA 5 is coauthored by 77 Democrat senators and assemblymembers, plus 1 Republican assemblymember, Greg Wallis. If passed by two-thirds of both houses of the California State Legislature, this proposed state constitutional amendment would place so-called “marriage equality” on the November 2024 California ballot.
As the Democrat-run Legislative Counsel’s Digest describes: “The California Constitution provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, and federal law permanently enjoins the state from enforcing this constitutional provision. This measure would repeal this unenforceable constitutional provision and would instead provide that the right to marry is a fundamental right, as specified.”
The overly-broad words of ACA 5, which would go into the California Constitution, are: “The right to marry is a fundamental right.” This has no definition at all. It would permit unlimited spouses and extreme polygamy; it would destroy the current minimum age for marriage, thus ushering in “child marriages”; and it fails to even mention or define “spouse,” thus someone could argue “a fundamental right” to “marry” an animal, an object, or even “themself.” Again, marriage is completely undefined, rendering ACA 5 “marriage anarchy.”
This is all about symbolism and lies versus truth. In 2008, California voters placed into the California State Constitution, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” But in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal striking down Prop. 8, and homosexual marriages started happening in California.
In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court opined that homosexuals can obtain marriage licenses in all 50 states. And even though Prop. 8 is legally dead, “LGBTQIA+” activists hate seeing the 14 words of truth about marriage in the California Constitution. So they’re trying to remove it the only way possible, by passing a state constitutional amendment and getting a majority of California voters to support it.
Status | Votes: ACA 5 on June 13 passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee and is going to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Voting yes in committee were all 8 Democrats + Republican Diane Dixon; voting no was Republican Kate Sanchez; abstaining was Republican Bill Essayli. Earlier, on February 14, ACA 5 was introduced on the Assembly floor, at that time gaining most of its coauthors. |
