Today is Thursday October 30th, 5 days away from the election. Check out this round-up of today's key stories produced by these super Bloggers Against Prop 8. Read these and get up to date commentary on the inch by inch battle to defend our civil rights. Make sure to recommend this and other DailyKos diaries. Comment on the others to make a difference in raising awareness and getting these important messages into the media.
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"Armageddon": A Call To Action To Defeat Prop 8
For weeks now, the grassroots and netroots have been organizing against Proposition 8 with a fierce urgency. We saw how much money the Mormons were raising and how many volunteers they were activating to overturn marriage equality in California and we saw the poll numbers in support of Prop 8 rise. So we mobilized to the tune of $1 million raised on ActBlue, 17,000 signatures on the Courage Campaign petition calling for the Mormon Church to stop funding the Prop 8 campaign's lies, more than 100,000 Facebook supporters of marriage equality in California and more than 1,700 followers of the No on 8 Twitter feed. read more
Prominent Prop 8 spokesman: gays are Hitler
There's one guy who's looming very large in this election right now. Sure, sure--you can see Barack Obama everywhere you look, and John McCain is...well...John McCain.
But in these few days right before the election, there is but one man whose name and actions are really being invoked fast and furious these days. And his name is...Adolf Hitler.
Supporters of California's Proposition 8--which would ban same-sex unions here--have now equated gays to Hitler.read more
Enough is Enough: No on Prop 8
I mean this is really getting out of hand. And before it goes any further, we need to establish a few things that the Yes on 8 campaign seems not to understand.
The current state of marriage does not make the words "bride" and "groom" hate speech. Gays are not the same as unicorns. No matter what Tom McClintock thinks, gays are not dogs either. The notion- in this country of all places- that equality would be "armageddon" should be outrageous to anyone. And most certainly, eliminating human rights would not be the same as defeating Hitler. Just stop. But hey- Yes on 8: if you've got an actual point, let's hear it. No really. One that's true.read more
My Dad, God and Proposition 8
I haven't posted a diary in a very, very long time, but wanted to contribute my voice to the many bloggers who are screaming, loud and clear, "NO" on Proposition 8.
Some folks might feel that I have no real dog in this hunt. After all, I am married, heterosexually so, for much of the last 28 years. I'm also emotionally (but not physically) polyamorous, but that is a different diary for a different time.
Yet my sexual orientation is not heterosexual. I am bisexual. I was, during a year-long period in my teens when you couldn't be bi, a lesbian. Back then, you had to either be straight or gay, because otherwise you were just either a ho or too chicken to come out, depending on whether you were talking to someone gay or straight. And, since I was what I thought was irretrievably in love with the woman of my dreams, I concluded that I must be a lesbian -- the boy down the street a mere distraction from my "true nature." That was the product of the sexual rhetoric at the time, and it was only through a lot of hard lessons and tears and just not being able to "pick a side" that I realized that I am genuinely sexually and emotionally capable of loving men and women equally.
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Coordinated Denial-of-Service Attacks on "No on 8" and (?) "No on 2" (FLA) sites
Late last night, Brian posted about a continuing and coordinated Denial of Service attack on the No on Prop 8 website. It coincided with a similar DoS attack on Florida's No on 2 website which is also fighting to protect marriage equality.
More details have emerged since last night, and the picture is likely to remain in flux for some time. the first storythe second
Prop 8 Fails with Latino Voters
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Dobson's California dreamin'
Look out, California, the Religious Right is bringing out the big guns!
That is, James Dobson of the Focus on the Family broadcasting empire has accepted an invitation to attend a prayer rally in San Diego this Saturday as the Religious Right’s last attempt to pass Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that would deprive gays and lesbians of the right to marry in California.read more
Dobson Chokes Up Explaining God Wants Him in California to Save Marriage
James Dobson dedicated his radio program today to explaining his sudden decision, which we mentioned earlier, to go to California this weekend to join Lou Engel, Tony Perkins and others for a massive "The Call" rally of prayer and fasting in the name of saving "traditional marriage." read more
Proposition 8:Where's the Money Coming From?
California's Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage, has taken in about $20 million from the Mormon Church and its members, including a recent $1 million contribution from the grandson of a president of the church, according to the No on 8 campaign.
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