Finally, an ad from No On Prop 8 that confronts the "out of state special interests" who fund the Yes campaign. Quoting many sources -- newspapers, nurses, teachers, the League of Women Voters -- from different communities all over the state of California, this ad shows that Californians want our laws to protect everyone:
It's wrong to treat people differently under the law.
Please help Californians who want to keep discrimination out of our state constitution. If the forces of hate are successful in the most populous state, in the largest economy in the United States -- our fight for equality will be set back for a generation.
You can help keep this ad on the air by contributing to No On Prop 8 right here.
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Thank you!
Thank you Teddy — dugg!
Thank YOU!
Teddy
Any idea why they’re not showing gay couples? Any idea if they’ve focused grouped doing so? Isn’t the idea that Prop 8 would break up already existing families?
I don’t know why the No On Prop 8 ads don’t show couples. The ads they’ve developed do work, though — focus groups of uncommitted voters break 2-1 after seeing ads from both sides. That’s why they need more money to run the ads they have. Their ads work.
With regard to breaking up families, I’m sure that will be litigated if Prop 8 passes. There’s no sense here that the amendment will be retroactive and nullify marriages being performed now, but our courts will have to decide that, I suppose.
The emphasis now seems to be “don’t take away existing rights” since the “don’t destroy existing families” is unknown and unclear. Californians respond very well to the argument “Regardless of how you personally feel about gay marriage, you don’t want to take away people’s rights, do you?”
Enshrining discrimination is something people instinctively recoil from, I think. I hope.
Teddy, I thought Jerry Brown has already said that the marriages that are performed before the election will remain intact even if the yes side wins. Oh ick, those were the three saddest words I have ever typed.
I think you are right, but I expect there will be further litigation regardless of which side wins. I’m not sure the haters will take Jerry Brown’s word for it; they’ll want to invalidate the marriages that have happened since the Court’s decision.
Let’s just defeat Prop 8 - then we will never have to know what they might do!