http://www.timesguardian.com/0720-4.html
"Gay and lesbian rights groups have sponsored a series of television ads that will oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriages.
The ads began airing in Houston last week, according to the Associated Press.
Proposition 2 would amend the Texas Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, although same-sex marriage is already banned by state law in Texas and in more than a dozen other states."- TimesGuardian.com, Oct. 2005
The issue in question here is the current Texas law that prohibits same sex marriage. It was just such a law that the Massachussetts Supreme Court judges deemed prejudicial and arbitrarily replaced with laws allowing gay marriage, circumventing the voice or vote of the citizens of that state. Proposition 2 was created to back up the vulnerable state law and insure that only the people of Texas, themselves, can decide to have gay marriage or not. It is written in such language as will prevent the judicial usurpation of voters rights that occurred in Massachussetts from happening in Texas. - Nancy Brown