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All of us at PFLAG know the power of parents to change hearts and minds. We were enormously proud that PFLAG’s own Sam & Julia Thoron kicked off the No on 8 campaign in California with a powerful television ad urging voters to reject attempts at rolling back rights for same-sex couples. Now, however, right-wing activists are attempting to use our families in their divisive, mean-spirited campaign to pass Proposition 8. The parents, however, are fighting back. And I hope you will fight with them. This truly is a new low in the campaign to discriminate against our families.
Below is an update from No On 8’s Geoff Kors. Please join all of us at PFLAG in helping to defeat Proposition 8 on election day. If you live in California, please vote no on Proposition 8. If you have loved ones or friends who live in the state, ask them to do the same. Early voting has started in California. And whether you vote today or November 4, please remember to vote no and stop these attacks on our families and the people we love.
â€" Jody
“Armageddonâ€
“More important than the presidential electionâ€
That’s what evangelical leader Charles W. Colson and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said about Prop 8, calling it the “decisive last stand†in the New York Times:
“California, they say, sets cultural trends for the rest of the country and even the world. If same-sex marriage is allowed to become entrenched there, they warn, there will be no going back.â€
So, they’ll stop at nothing to provoke a final tidal wave of attention and money before the election.
Last week, they tried it with an ad that reaches a new low.
Their new, horrible, abusive ad uses unauthorized images of children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. And they’re proud of it. From their website:
"Our new ad gives us great hope."
"As strong as this new ad is, however, it won't be able to reverse our downward trend in the polls if voters only see it once for every two times that they see ads from our opponents. The future of traditional marriage remains in grave, grave danger. If we aren't successful in raising a minimum of $2 million more to supplement our advertising buy for next week, we will lose. The more we can raise above $2 million, the better our chances of prevailing will be. It is as simple as that."
By contrast, we are staying true to our core values and message: Prop 8 is wrong and unfair.
We cannot be lulled into thinking that voters will see through their transparent, dirty tactics. To defeat Prop 8, we need to give more and do more.
Their goal is to raise $2 million dollars in the next few days.
They have a $1 million match on their site right now. We have every reason to believe they’ll raise $2 million today alone.
We need to match them dollar for dollar in this crucial final stretch. Donate today.
In Solidarity,
Geoff Kors
Executive Committee Member
No On Prop 8
Below is an update from No On 8’s Geoff Kors. Please join all of us at PFLAG in helping to defeat Proposition 8 on election day. If you live in California, please vote no on Proposition 8. If you have loved ones or friends who live in the state, ask them to do the same. Early voting has started in California. And whether you vote today or November 4, please remember to vote no and stop these attacks on our families and the people we love.
â€" Jody
“Armageddonâ€
“More important than the presidential electionâ€
That’s what evangelical leader Charles W. Colson and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said about Prop 8, calling it the “decisive last stand†in the New York Times:
“California, they say, sets cultural trends for the rest of the country and even the world. If same-sex marriage is allowed to become entrenched there, they warn, there will be no going back.â€
So, they’ll stop at nothing to provoke a final tidal wave of attention and money before the election.
Last week, they tried it with an ad that reaches a new low.
Their new, horrible, abusive ad uses unauthorized images of children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. And they’re proud of it. From their website:
"Our new ad gives us great hope."
"As strong as this new ad is, however, it won't be able to reverse our downward trend in the polls if voters only see it once for every two times that they see ads from our opponents. The future of traditional marriage remains in grave, grave danger. If we aren't successful in raising a minimum of $2 million more to supplement our advertising buy for next week, we will lose. The more we can raise above $2 million, the better our chances of prevailing will be. It is as simple as that."
By contrast, we are staying true to our core values and message: Prop 8 is wrong and unfair.
We cannot be lulled into thinking that voters will see through their transparent, dirty tactics. To defeat Prop 8, we need to give more and do more.
Their goal is to raise $2 million dollars in the next few days.
They have a $1 million match on their site right now. We have every reason to believe they’ll raise $2 million today alone.
We need to match them dollar for dollar in this crucial final stretch. Donate today.
In Solidarity,
Geoff Kors
Executive Committee Member
No On Prop 8
One more reason - in fact, too many more reasons - we urgently need an inclusive, federal hate crimes law:"The FBI reported more than 7,600 hate crime incidents in 2007, down about 1 percent from last year," the Associated Press reported this morning. "The decline was driven by decreases in the two largest categories of hate crimes â€" crimes against race and religion. . . . But prejudice against sexual orientation, the third-largest category, increased about 6 percent, the report found."
A decade after the brutal attack on Matthew Shepard . . . more than a year after the anti-gay attack on Sean Kennedy . . . and following a recent report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs showing that hate crimes against the LGBT community increased 24 percent nationwide . . . the evidence is overwhelming: The United States must pass, and the President must sign, comprehensive hate crimes legislation. Now.
PFLAG is proud to have partnered with Sean Kennedy's mother to launch a petition calling on Senators to pass The Matthew Shepard Act. To date, more than 9,000 Americans have signed our letter to Congress, demanding that they take action to protect our LGBT loved ones. (If you haven't already signed on, just click here.)
While today's AP story notes that the FBI did "not assign a cause for the slight overall . . . increase in anti-gay hate crimes," the first step towards decreasing those crimes is to take them seriously. And nothing shows how serious lawmakers are more than passing legislation to protect the community.
With each attack on our community, our families and our loved ones, we get too many more reasons to be outraged that the law we need has yet to be passed.
USA Today reporter Andrea Stone (who has previously reported on marriage equality in California and efforts to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell") traveled to Florida last week to look at efforts in that state to defeat Amendment 2, a divisive constitutional amendment to bar state recognition of all unmarried couples, both heterosexual and LGBT.Her story, in this morning's paper, highlights efforts on the ground to build a diverse coalition of allies - including senior citizens, religious leaders and others - to win this critical fight.
"Helene Milman, 68, and Wayne Rauen, 59, of Sunrise are convinced that after 25 years together, nine of them as registered domestic partners, the measure will strip them of protections," Stone writes. "They are featured in a TV ad paid for by the group Say No to 2."
"Milman shudders at the idea that she might have spent five hours alone on a hospital gurney as she awaited breast cancer surgery in 2003. Without his domestic partner I.D. card, Rauen might not have been able to stay by her side. If forced to marry, the widow would lose $13,000 in annual Social Security benefits."
"Why can't they let people live their own lives?" Rauen asks.
In fact, same-sex couples are a minority of those who will have critical legal protections denied if Amendment 2 passes.
"The Census Bureau reports 435,492 unmarried-partner households in Florida," Stone writes. "Nearly nine of 10 are heterosexual, says demographer Gary Gates of the Williams Institute. Many are widowed seniors who would lose Social Security or pension benefits if they remarried."
60% of voters must approve a change the constitution, and USA Today notes that recent polls have found 55% support for the measure, making turn-out critically important on November 4.
"Interviews reveal support for defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman but concern that the measure may go too far," Stone says in her story.
"Haven Eaton, 61, a Tampa handyman, says he will vote no. 'While I may not favor same-sex marriage,' he says, 'I don't think they ought to be denied benefits available to traditional marriage.'"
To read the full USA Today story, visit the paper online. And for more information on Amendment 2 and the campaign to defeat it, click here and here.
Now here is someone we all KNOW is qualified to talk about world issues. Just because she has led a very privileged life, and really has no real grasp of world issues does not make her a bad person, just a senseless Republican who never worried about money, health care, the economy or really anything [...]
From opednews.com: If Obama is elected, expect the religious right to stir the radical conservatives up continually. Whether the country will see a replay of Ruby Ridge is total speculation, but it is possible. If Proposition 8 in California is defeated, that will give the radicals even more cause and reason to further the [...]
From counton2.com: A rally opposing a proposed ban on same-sex marriage in California turned ugly Friday night. Demonstrators gathered in Bakersfield Friday to show their opposition to California’s Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage measure on next month’s ballot. During the demonstration a proponent of the ban walked into the crowd and began throwing punches. Ken Mettler says he approached [...]
The FBI has reported a slight decrease in hate crimes last year, despite an increase against gays and lesbians. The report included more than 7,600 hate crime incidents in 2007, down about 1 percent from last year. Over half of reported hate crimes are racially motivated, religious bias is the second-leading motive for hate crimes, [...]
According to prnewswire.com: The parents of the two children most prominently featured in the latest multi-million dollar Yes on 8 political spot termed those ads “distasteful and exploitative” and demanded that the ads be taken off the air immediately. Both sets of parents — Laura Hodder and Matt Alexander and Jen Press and James Moore sent [...]
From blackjew.net: “The whole community changed,” she said. “It became extremely rigid and intolerant, and you can see that in every election since.” Palin, said O’Hara, “represents the worst of those values. She feels that because she’s a member of the right church, she’s chosen by God to inflict her values on everyone.” With her vice presidential [...]
By Jim Johnson - The Republican Party continues to use fear mongering as one of it’s prime tactics in this election cycle, and their affiliate, the Religious Right, remains a primary source. One painfully obvious example of this is a recent letter produced by Focus on the Family Action, quoted in this MSNBC report, titled “Letter from [...]
From newsamericamedia.org: Last year, students at her high school threw a bottle at Nina Almero, poured soda into her purse, cae, called her names and spread rumors about her. Their bullying and harassment, Almero says, was a result of her high visibility as president of the school’s Gay and Lesbian Student Alliance, and because she is out [...]
Over 200 Tampa Bay area residents were in attendance Sunday afternoon at a rally against Amendment 2, a proposed state ban on gay marriage. The group gathered downtown at at Lowry Park. The pr The protest was organized by more than a dozen interfaith leaders. Civic, local and state government leaders were also in attendance. Abhi Janamanchi, minister [...]
It looks as though Lindsay Lohan has reported that her lesbian romance with Samantha Ronson may not go the distance because she “loves men too much.” It’s been rumored she has been sending text messages to Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford. As reported in the The Sun: “Linds is adamant she’s not a lesbian and still loves [...]
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