On Civil Rights & Marriage Equality. One last chance to fight back.

The Ad you can help put on the air!

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 14:14:00 PM CDT

Help Spread the Word

I'll be asking friends, family, and acquaintances to donate & hope others do the same, but you can also help spread the word by recommending this dairy on Kos & giving it a shot at getting wider viewership.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 05:15:27 AM CDT

Here in Connecticut...

the opposition is the Roman Catholic Church and the Family Institute of Connecticut.

A few weekends ago we (Vote NO) had a rally on the south side of the state Capital and the Roman Catholic Church and the Family Institute of Connecticut had their rally on the north side of the Capital. As we were having our Vote NO rally with about a 100 people, I watched bus load after bus load of parishioners pile off the buses along with passenger van from the smaller churches. It was very disheartening to watch all these people who thought they were on a crusade, we have a lot of work to do to against an opponent who cam mobilize voter from the pulpit.

While we were having our rally, a man walked up to the microphone and pulled out a bible and told us we were all sinners and we were damned to hell. He had to be escorted back to his side of the Capital by the Capital police.  

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by: Diana CT @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 06:21:01 AM CDT

I'll mobilize family

My Mormon parents in Utah have finally come over to our side. They're speaking out against Mormon support of Prop 8 and Prop 102. My sister and her husband still live in CT and called me screaming and happy about the Kerrigan decision. They are our allies in this and will help us fight.

VOLUNTEER TO PHONE BANK FROM HOME FOR EQUALITY CAMPAIGNS IF YOU'RE OUT OF STATE.  

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 13:11:59 PM CDT

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wonderful news about your parents!

:-D

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by: Lurleen2 @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 21:40:19 PM CDT

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It takes ads and get out the vote

I don't have much faith in the ads that the NO campaign has produced, but that's what we have to work with (dare I say, "whether I like it or not") so I'll bitch about it and then hit the streets.

Today I'm strolling a few neighborhoods with signs for small businesses to display (hopefully) in their window.  I live in SF and I realize that to a certain extent the NO vote is assumed, but I'm still surprised at how few signs I see about Prop 8 and it makes me nervous.

One big problem (maybe not big, but it could be) is that the signs are just as neutered as the ads are.  I tried to give a sign to a small neighborhood restaurant I've been frequenting for over 10 years with 5 of my gay friends on a weekly basis.  The restaurant is in a (changing but still historically) queer neighborhood and he didn't know what Prop 8 was and the sign I was asking him to post didn't make it any clearer for him.  

I guess I'll give more money this weekend because of the matching grant, but I can't afford it and I don't have faith in what the money is paying for, but what the hell else am I going to do to help defeat 8?

Joe Biden is making three cash collecting campaign stops in the bay area this weekend in order to help the Obama campaign spread its margin of victory deeper into traditional red state territory - WITH CA MONEY.

Why can't those selfish fuckers give the No on 8 campaign some money?  Why do they have to actively compete with our campaign - while not even advocating for us - when they are flush with cash and gaining in polls?

After 2 years of campaigning who is left to be convinced to vote for Obama that isn't being coy just to get attention and not seem like a racist hold out?

Can they really spend all of the tens of millions of dollars they already have in the next two weeks...couldn't they afford to give $1 million to the campaign that they supposedly support?

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by: Patrick @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 11:00:16 AM CDT

One more time - now $500

I've given more money to No on 8 today - another $200.  

This time I did something different.

Instead of just giving money to the No on 8 campaign I also made a contribution to the Nader/Gonzalez campaign.

At least I know that I'm not contributing to Obama's campaign to keep a safe distance from my equality.

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by: Patrick @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 17:42:24 PM CDT

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i've been phone banking with no on 8,

and i can tell you that our scripts are VERY effective with undecided voters.  and believe it or not, part of their success is how they reflect aspects of the tv ads.  until i did this calling, i also was skeptical about the ads.  but now i'm convinced the strategy we're using is a very good one.  keep the faith, and THANK YOU for taking the initiative in your neighborhood.  this is how we win.

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by: Lurleen2 @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 21:47:23 PM CDT

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Done, and left PHB as reference

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 14:51:18 PM CDT

It turns back into a pumpkin at midnight!

So act now, or not at all. Make a decision to step off the side lines of this civil rights issue & have no regrets tomorrow, or watch it go by. But decide right now.

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Sun Oct 19, 2008 at 16:14:46 PM CDT

a bittersweet taste

is what i will go to bed with if i have to start over on planning my marriage in a state where i know no one because people voted to take away existing rights

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 00:10:39 AM CST

Today it feels good to be a North Carolinian.

Much of CA stopped issuing marriage licenses to gay couples yesterday. But MA still has marriage equality & their neighboring state CT just started recently recognizing marriage for gay couples, another neighbor NY city has the largest gay population in the US, & much of the northeast has favorable outlooks & laws relating to gay people. As much as I am lament what has happened in CA, I wouldn't mind seeing the gay rights movement center being on the east coast. I was glad to see blue inroads in places like VA which turned blue in the presidential election for the first time in over half a century. And a big Hell Yeah! to my home-state of NC for going blue all the way through, for Congress, for Governor with our first female gov, for many smaller races, and likely for President Obama as well. Today it feels good to be a North Carolinian.

MassEquality.org

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 10:32:17 AM CST