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Latest No on 8 Video
Since I know that we probably wont see much of this video in the Central Valley. I thought that I would post it on here so that we could atleast see what the rest of California is watching. Heres a video by Samuel L Jackson.
Vandals will be out Tomorrow!
Well I’m sure that most of you already know by now that tomorrow is Halloween and there is probably going to be Vandals out and about destroying Prop 8 Signs. Just hope that they dont target ours but just to make sure that they dont get a hold of our signs. I think that It would be wise to put them in for tomorrow night and then bring them back out in the morning. Just some advise to keep our signs safe, jeez I feel like their our children,LOL. Have a safe Halloween Everyone!!
Prop 8 Poll on CBS47
Go Voice your opinion on CBS 47 poll on Prop 8. www.cbs47.tv
Faith Rally Against Prop 8-Fresno City Hall
Rally in opposition to Proposition 8. Sunday, November 2nd from 2PM-4PM. Fresno City Hall Plaza @2600 Fresno Street, Fresno, CA 93721. Featured Speaker: Father Geoff Farrow. Additional Speakers: The Reverend Bryan Jessup of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno. More speakers to be announced. For more information call (559) 862-4559.
No on Prop 8 Rally Tomorrow!!
Well I’m sure that most of you seen the news last night and you saw the tremendous support for the proposition that would strip us of our fundamental right away, so how about if we show them that Visalia has lots of support against prop 8 as well, Invite friends, family, neighbors whoever you can get to come in support of equal rights to attend the rally in Visalia this Wednesday! Hope to see you all there this Wednesday-Jesse Rodriguez, PFLAG of Tulare/Kings Counties (Parents,Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Board Member.
Attention No On 8 Warriors,
We had an amazing rally in Visalia Oct. 15th. Over 120 people showed up and more drove by honking and cheering to support a NO vote on Prop 8. It was a very positive atmosphere and we had a great time.
Members of Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA), and Porterville LGBTQ, will be combining forces again with Tulare/Kings County PFLAG, ACT For Women And Girls, Queer Visalia, and Gay Visalia to show our opposition to Prop 8.
Join the Movement!! If you were there Oct. 15th, bring your No On 8 gear and join us again. If you were unable to make it last time, Don’t Miss This One, we need you! Wave a sign, sport your rainbow flags, meet some new friends. Even if you can only stop by for a minute you are welcome and appreciated. Tell everyone you know and invite them too.
Date: Wednesday, October 29th
Time: 5pm-7pm
Location: Walnut & Mooney (Grassy area next to In & Out Burger)
Visalia, CA
If you are planning to make a sign, poster paint and a sponge brush, or a bingo dobber work great for making big letters. Must be short and to the point so people can read them while driving by. Please no cursing. The No On 8 Campaign has also asked that we don’t use the word “hate” in our signs because it is controversial to undecided voters.
Remember this is a peaceful protest. Please do not engage in arguments with our opposition.
Jamie Garza Chair Porterville LGBTQ, Tulare County Chapter Leader MEUSA559 756-0725 porterville_lgbtq@clearwire.net,
Hope Attenhofer PFLAG Tulare-Kings County Chapter, 559 579-1101 visaliapflag@gmail.com, www. pflag-tulare-kings. org,
Nate Rodriguez Activist Rainbow ProduKtionz, 559 736-7702 abercrombieaf1892@hotmail.com
No on Prop 8 (Spanish)
America Ferrera, Tony Plana & Ana Ortiz Speak Out Against Prop 8
New Spanish Language TV Spot Released
SACRAMENTO - Today the NO on Prop 8 campaign launched a powerful new Spanish language television ad featuring America Ferrera, Tony Plana and Ana Ortiz, three prominent actors currently starring in the hit television show “Ugly Betty.” The NO on Prop 8 spot will begin airing Monday, Oct. 27, on Spanish language television stations throughout California.
“Voting no on Prop 8 is not just about gay rights,” said America Ferrera. “It’s about preserving the integrity of equal rights in this country. This is not about being gay or straight, it’s about being American. Vote no on Prop 8.”
“Family is very important to Latinos,” said Tony Plana. “Prop 8 discriminates against families and everything we stand for. I encourage all Californians to vote NO on this divisive and unfair proposition.”
“Like all Americans, Latinos have family members and friends who are gay and deserve the same rights all of us have,” said Ana Ortiz. “Prop 8 would take away those rights and that’s why we urge all Californians to vote NO.”
“We are thrilled that these prominent actors are speaking directly to the Latino community,” said Yvette Martinez,the political director of No on 8. “Proponents have targeted the Latino community with advertisements that continue to lie about Prop 8. We’re so proud and so grateful to have America, Tony and Ana stand against discrimination and for fairness and equality.”
Nearly every major paper in California has editorialized against Prop 8 stating that “It is not acceptable to impose these beliefs to all society and, much less, amend the California Constitution. We are against Proposition 8.” (La Opinión), “it is only fair that it afford equal protection to all who choose to make loving lifelong commitments to one another. We recommend a “no” vote on Prop. 8.” (Orange County Register) and “Fundamental rights are exactly that. They should neither wait for popular acceptance, nor be revoked because it is lacking.” (Los Angeles Times).
Disapproval of lifestyle not a reason to ban gay marriage
Written By, KATHRYN HALL, M.D. • PFLAG board member • October 22, 2008
Thirty years ago I fell in love deeply and devotedly. Corinne was my firstborn, and to me she was perfect in every way, even down to the adorable casts to correct her club feet. And I fell in love again and yet again when her brother and sister were born. My greatest ambition has always been to see my children grow into happy, healthy, responsible adults, and that hope was realized this summer at the joyous celebration of my son’s wedding.
Now Corinne has fallen in love and will be married next summer during our family reunion. As her mother I have the great happiness of helping plan the wedding, assisted by the facility event planner, family members and millions of others.
California voters, you see, are actually the wedding planners with the most control. They will decide whether or not to deny my daughter, and so many other Californians, the right to marry whom they love. And as a parent, it seems strange that so many people who do not know my child can have such an effect on her life — after all, neither she nor her brother asked my permission before they became engaged. They are old enough and responsible enough to make these decisions on their own, without maternal or governmental interference. That’s why Proposition 8 is so wrong, and why a no vote is so important.
The authors of Proposition 8 are trying to make Californians subject to their particular beliefs, and rolling back the right to the pursuit of happiness that same-sex couples already enjoy.
When California began allowing same sex couples to marry, it did not lessen my love for my husband. The many family and friends who know and love Corinne also support her, and are not threatened by her relationship or sexual orientation, either.
Our religion is one of several that recognize the validity of same-sex relationships including marriage. One couple’s marriage cannot threaten another’s if they are all based on truth and love. It is a lack of truth and love that can destroy a marriage, regardless of the gender of those involved.
Proposition 8 harms marriage and families by stripping away basic rights. We must each be able to choose our own partner in marriage. There is no reason for the state to be setting restrictions on the relationships of consenting adults. The state of California does have an interest in protecting families, marriages, individual and religious freedom; but unfair discrimination protects none of us. Proposition 8 puts government where it does not belong — in our churches and synagogues, in our bedrooms and at my daughter’s wedding.
I want what’s best for my daughter, and I want her to be happy and married to the person she loves. Discrimination should never be a governmental mandate, and California should encourage matrimony based on honesty and love, and not deny it based on whom that love is for. And the institution of marriage is the only one that provides critically important benefits; domestic partnerships and civil unions do not offer the same protections for partners and their families.
And, in the end, it is about being fundamentally fair to all of our children. How can it be fair for my heterosexual son to marry, but for Corinne to be denied her opportunity for a loving, committed and responsible relationship? It cannot be, and that is why we cannot allow Proposition 8 to become law.
On Nov. 4, my daughter’s 30th birthday, we will find out if the people of California will grant her fair and equal protection under the law, or if they will take a cue from reality TV and vote her off the island simply because of whom she loves.
Stand up for our children, and again this unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives, by voting no on Proposition 8. Give my daughter, Corinne, the best birthday present she could ever want. We will all be grateful.
Apple Joins Fight Against Prop 8
TECH CHRONICLES
Saturday, October 25, 2008
“Apple Inc. is donating $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, which seeks to end same-sex marriage in California by amending the Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Apple joins Google, which came out publicly against Prop. 8 last month. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly have donated a combined $140,000 to fight the measure.
In revealing its support, Google officials voiced similar points, saying the company sees the issue as one of equality and is opposed to the elimination of fundamental rights.
“While we respect the strongly held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 - we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love,” Brin said.
It is not common practice for either company to take a stand on political measures. It remains to be seen what effect the move might have on Proposition 8 supporters, who might avoid doing business with companies that oppose the measure.”
“Prop 8″ Dishonesty Exposed
Fresno Bee Speaks Out Against Prop 8
In May, the issue took a legal turn. Same-sex couples won the right to marry when the state Supreme Court overturned Proposition 22, the ballot measure that banned gay marriage in 2000.
The court said that was discrimination, and unconstitutional: “An individual’s sexual orientation — like a person’s race or gender — does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights,” wrote Chief Justice Ronald M. George in the majority opinion. He got that exactly right.
Proponents of Proposition 8 have offered several arguments for their position.
They complain that “activist judges” overturned the will of the majority. But that’s what judges are supposed to do when the majority seeks to deny the rights of a minority.
The notion that same-sex marriages somehow threaten the sanctity and strength of heterosexual marriages is simply absurd. Those who worry about the health of heterosexual marriages should focus their attention on divorce, which is the real threat to marriage.
No church will be compelled to perform same-sex marriages if Proposition 8 fails.
The claim that schools will be forced by the state to teach “gay marriage,” featured in TV ads flooding the airwaves, is a flat lie. Local school districts control such curriculum, and state law permits parents to withdraw their children from lessons they find objectionable.
Proposition 8 proponents claim that same-sex partners can enjoy the same legal rights and benefits as married couples. That’s another falsehood. Domestic partners don’t share Social Security benefits, health insurance or pensions, for instance. They don’t get family leave and cannot file joint tax returns, nor do they share rights to retirement benefits.
This nation outgrew the thoroughly discredited theory of “separate but equal” decades ago, yet proponents of Proposition 8 would have us enshrine that notion in our state constitution.
All loving, committed couples should have the right to marry, with all the benefits and obligations that relationship incurs. That’s the law now in California, and it should remain the law. The state constitution shouldn’t be used to turn some people into second-class citizens. Vote “no” on Proposition 8.
Mike Martinez
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