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Care to help repeal prop 8?
16 years ago
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For those of you that are interested in helping to repeal proposition 8 at the ballot I am working with Courage Campaign here in Cali to accomplish that in 2010. An overwhelming majority of the states LGBT organizations and members now believe that 2010 is the best time to go back to the ballot.
We have teams setup throughout the state in most major counties and many smaller counties. I'm leading the Contra Costa County team and hope to have my team fully up and running by mid next week. Our primary work at the moment is canvasing (going door to door to talk with voters), tabeling in front of businesses (with their permission of course) and phone banking to reach voters over the phone.
I'm posting this here as I know many of you live in CA and have been affected in one way or another by prop 8. We need your help. If your not interested please pay this journal no mind, but if you are please contact me at Furfragged@gmail.com. Whatever county you are in I can place you with a nearby team or help you in starting one and get the necessary training to do so.
Any help people can offer is wonderful. Art, video, editing, sign making, what ever it is your willing to contribute we are more than happy to have your help.
For those interested please send responses to my Email. It will be easier to correspond from there.
Thanks in advance.
for more info you can check out courage campaign's wesite here.
http://www.couragecampaign.org/
click on the "equality hub" button for Prop 8 info
We have teams setup throughout the state in most major counties and many smaller counties. I'm leading the Contra Costa County team and hope to have my team fully up and running by mid next week. Our primary work at the moment is canvasing (going door to door to talk with voters), tabeling in front of businesses (with their permission of course) and phone banking to reach voters over the phone.
I'm posting this here as I know many of you live in CA and have been affected in one way or another by prop 8. We need your help. If your not interested please pay this journal no mind, but if you are please contact me at Furfragged@gmail.com. Whatever county you are in I can place you with a nearby team or help you in starting one and get the necessary training to do so.
Any help people can offer is wonderful. Art, video, editing, sign making, what ever it is your willing to contribute we are more than happy to have your help.
For those interested please send responses to my Email. It will be easier to correspond from there.
Thanks in advance.
for more info you can check out courage campaign's wesite here.
http://www.couragecampaign.org/
click on the "equality hub" button for Prop 8 info
I'll pray for an earthquake or three in SLC too, for good measure.
Why does the media and several equality organizations put so much into CA and almost ignore everyone else?
And it looks like it's right by where the furry convention this year will be. 8D Wouldn't be a bad mix! :3
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The problem with the larger issue is that both sides are being intellectually dishonest.
A) One side claims "we must preserve marriage as the sacred institution it is." As I've written elsewhere, this is like killing your cow because a fox is stealing your chickens. If the goal is truly to preserve heterosexual marriage, these people need to be exerting their energies on curbing divorce instead of forbidding gay unions. The real goal has little to do with the preservation of heterosexual norms, but is more akin to channeling homophobia by other means.
B) The other side wants to possess the concept of "marriage," even though the same setup is available to them by other means. For a subculture that's all about its own independence and identity apart from the mainstream, there seems to be a lot of desire to control the use of the word marriage. "We're as good as you" doesn't require "we're identical to you" to be valid.
Of course, all this could be resolved by championing individualism--let there be no legal, financial or social benefits to marriage qua marriage. That's never going to get any traction tho, because for gays it's about a larger social acceptance for their particular identity, and for straights it's about maintaining their power as the dominant social force.
A) the majority took slavery away from the minority.
B) gay marriage was never a right to be taken away, but a recent judicial fiat.
My larger point is that we're not going to solve this issue while both sides are misrepresenting their true motives. Take it as you like.
The Mormon motivation is to fuck around with everyone elses lives and force their god damned lunatic beliefs down everyones throats.
The Gay Motivation is to recieve the same treatment everyone else takes for granted.
Now that the true motivations are out there we can move on :D
Please don't make broad, slanderous accusations against large groups of people (in this case, Mormons). That's the kind of thing we were supposed to be avoiding. And more bothersome, what's this "everyone else" stuff? I'm single and I don't take for granted what gays are missing because I don't receive it either. As I wrote earlier, so very much of this could be resolved by championing individualism overall.
And for the record, I firmly believe that gays should have every right to be as miserable as straights.
Now you can have the last word. Enjoy!
I don't live in Cali but I'd like to help.
I have Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects plus several years experience in video to contribute.
Just tell me what you need and I'll see what I can knock together.
Stupid prop 8! D<