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02/15/2009
Prop 8: Give us mo' money to separate a 'mo from his honey
For the sole cause of hurting gay people, they've already managed to siphon 40+ million dollars out of citizens. But for the Yes on 8 campaign, that's not enough. For them, there exists a more, more, more scenario.
What's that mean? Well, it's certainly not a fun "More, More, More" scenario like this one:
No, no -- Yes on 8's "more, more, more" means that they need to raise more money, cause more pain, and trot out even more false claims about the "mean, militant" gays and their "mean, militant" ways. Oh, and the "how do you like your love?" question in their song? Yea, well let's just say that it comes with an emphatically hetero-only answer!
The latest example from civil rights history's inevitably losing team? This new donation letter that surfaced over the weekend:
Ya know, it takes a very brazen mentality to take away other people's rights. But to take people's rights away and then turn around and un-ironically claim victim status? Well that sort of mindset takes a level of shamelessness so unabashed, we imagine it requires some sort of emotional core desensitization process for its practitioners to even be able to carry it out! It's as contrived as it is offensive.
The truth? Yes on 8 knows that our side has a good case. Yes on 8 knows that they may not have had the right to act in the way that they did. Yes on 8 knows that there's a very good chance that Prop 8 will be tossed, which would mean that they duped scores of people in these economically-hindered times to donate millions of dollars to a campaign that they never should have waged to begin with. So these high stakes and more are the reasons why their tone is at the impertinent level that is. They know that a court loss is highly possible, if not probable, and that such a loss would be an even bigger conversation-changer than if our side had won the Prop 8 fight at the polls. So they are pulling out all of the stops and then some, inciting their supporters with callous (and dangerous) abandon. Our side's reasoned arguments are presented as anti-democratic maneuverings. Our side's resounding outcry is reduced to a few over-the-top instances. And our broad base of support is painted as an out-of-touch monolith that is hoping to circumvent fairness rather than embolden the same.
All we can do is keep pushing back. We can keep talking to whoever will listen. Every time phrases like "tyranny of the majority" or conversations about the distinction between religious marriage ritual and civil marriage license make their way to the public at-large, our side moves ahead a wee bit. Thanks to the nightmare that is still Prop 8, perhaps we (and, unwittingly, Yes on 8) will wake up some heretofore dormant support chambers.
Your thoughts
See my comment re Sue Orman...e.g. send this to Keith Olbermann..and Rachel Maddow shows..They will say something I'll bet!
Oh, I join the National Organization for Marriage just to see what they spew..and they need more money too.
Oh did you see on the Blend where people were arrested in Chicago for staying in Marriage license bureau after being turned away. Still in jail at midnight according to a poster who is there....another Chicago Valentine's Day 'Massacre'..Mass Arrest.
Anyway some of the commenters there are saying our side should start collecting money to spring all the brave ones who get arrested.
I tell you if our Court doesn't overturn Prop H8... I may be one of the arrested ones!
Posted by: LOrion | Feb 15, 2009 10:17:14 PM
They say a lot of things that should give anyone pause before giving them any more money. First, they have to own up to the fact that they lied to them about "passing this amendment will ensure that the homos are put in their place!" The hordes must be stinging from having been duped into pissing away 40 million dollars on that lie.
Then they mention that the best and brightest legal minds from the largest firms are donating their time and effort to benefit us, when none of them are stepping up for H8. They also mention the avalanche of legal briefs filed supporting us, which dwarfs the pathetic offering supporting H8.
And, to cap it all off, they then mention that there is enormous support for our side in the legislature, the Governor and the Attorney General.
I know how mindless the minions on that side can be.. but you would think that even the most mentally impaired of the buffoons could put one and one together (and even if they don't know that it adds up to two) they should still realize that those swindling, lying liars are just going to fuck them out of more millions of their dollars.
And, if they don't, then c'est la vie at least it's their money that they're wasting, and eventually that well will run dry.
Posted by: Dick Mills | Feb 16, 2009 1:15:26 AM
There are so many important causes. There's so much good that could be done with forty million dollars. And how do they choose to spend it?
The American religious right is completely morally bankrupt. And if they keep this up they'll soon be literally bankrupt, which might be no bad thing!
TRiG.
Posted by: Timothy (TRiG) | Feb 16, 2009 9:57:48 AM
Note that they highlight that these donations will be "completely confidential" which should be cast as dubious. That's the way the 'mos should position it, saying we'll go to court to have these records revealed (in the same manner that they went to court to try to hide their identities) which would have the same effect as what they call the "outrageous use of Google Maps" and the disclosure of their contributions to H8.
We can and should play that game, too. The propagandists can no longer hide.
Posted by: Jamie | Feb 16, 2009 12:57:52 PM
If we keep fighting back with our superior volunteer skills we can just keep bleeding the fundie piggy bank.
Bankrupt the suckers.
Posted by: Jon | Feb 16, 2009 3:45:29 PM
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