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Here are just three recent issues at stake in the California legislature and November election:

  • ACA 2: When government seizes private property using eminent domain, should it be required to provide just compensation and state a public use for the land, or can it transfer that property to another private party?
     
  • Proposition 8: Is marriage between a husband and wife, or are all gender combinations morally right?
     
  • Assembly Bill 1511: Should California require parents to go through a sexual education class, which gives them the "communication skills necessary to talk with their children"?

Someone will decide whether these policies pass or fail. We are responsible to defend our churches and other property from transfer, without consent, to private parties such as mall developers. We are responsible to speak when same-sex marriage may give children three legal parents, or no father, or no mother. We are responsible to tell the state that "the talk" about human sexuality belongs to parents, and that it may not mandate parental attendance in classes.

Citizen Sundays make it easy for church attendees to register to vote. They also provide information about the propositions on this November's ballot. Through these simple events, people get equipped to vote with confidence. This is why we vote: to choose the laws and officials who represent our beliefs -- rather than undermine our constitutional freedoms.