Backers say State Issue 1 will stop left's goal to 'destroy the family unit'

[brooklynite]

Cleveland Plain Dealer

SUNBURY, Ohio – Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. A rising minimum wage. A lowered age of consent. A leftist attack on family and fatherhood.

This, a panel of conservatives speaking at a county GOP event at a crowded Delaware County church Monday night, is what State Issue 1 is all about.

While abortion is at the forefront now – Republicans hastily scheduled an Aug. 8 vote on a referendum to make future Constitutional amendments harder, just before an expected November vote to constitutionally guarantee abortion access in Ohio – the speakers widened the aperture for voters as they began casting early ballots and Election Day draws nearer.

Backers of State Issue 1 have previously explained their focus on “defending” the Constitution. But in a campaign involving town halls hosted in churches around the state, the messaging shifted to describe a sprawling and existential threat from the political left. Liberals, boxed out of power in a GOP-dominated state government, want to use the Constitution to fundamentally change a “way of life,” according to Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis.

[The Magistrate]

1. 'The Left', Sir, Comprising The Majority Of The Populace, Apparently...

[Merlot]

2. A rising minimum wage. - Yes, that is what will DESTROY families

[dembotoz]

3. sort of a walmart of fascism

it does bring similar folks under one tent or steeple.......

[Qutzupalotl]

4. People believe their own caricatures of the other side.

Who would have a goal of destroying the family unit, and why? No one, and no reason. But it pads their own conceit to believe outrageous things about their opponents.

[Initech]

5. That's not the left's goal.

We don’t want to destroy the family. We want middle class families to survive and thrive without fear of bigotry or getting shot.