Prop 8 Protest signs
 

Give me some good ideas.

And again!

Mine said "you can't stop love - this fight isn't over."

I tried very hard to condense the message we wanted into two signs for Tom and I, but I couldn't do it. The gist was:

Sign one
When we win this fight, our straight marriage will not be invalidated

Sign two
It will feel more valid when our friends also have the right to marry

What Does My Marriage Have To Do With Theirs?

I'm working on my Best Sign To Date for tonight, so I really hope I make it.


Sigh, I wish I could give you some good ideas ... but this one barely came to me in time for me to be late again to work not nearly finished making it.



Ooooh, you could use the one I LOVE, but found counterproductive to a positive potential side-effect of me attending so many of these protests.


WHAT DOES MY MARRIAGE HAVE TO DO WITH YOURS?


A great slogan, funny, to the point, eloquent .... but implied that I wasn't single. NOT what I want to do in the only recent situations where I'm around tons of new gay men. ;)






ETA: I see Sac posted a similar suggestion, but I think mine (actually Ghoulish Delight's) is slightly better.

Keep Your Bible Out of My Constitution

I have magic powers.

Snarky:
Polygamy = traditional marriage?

Too long:
Tell you what, you can baptise all the dead people you want
let MY friends get married

My choice
Love knows no discrimination
marriage=love

Stop the H8
Invalidate 8

No to 8igotry

Would anyone be opposed to combining all the Prop 8 threads? I'm forgetting where I posted what.

Jeremy over at GoodAsYou had a good one, I thought.

I think you should delete this post, lest you want an EXPLOTION of Post Prop 8 threads. ;)


signed,

- the person who lived to regret requesting combining and stopping the spread of election threads.

He's a prophet I tells ya'!

Prop 8 Will Not Stop The Sodomy!







Too esoteric?

No More Mr. Nice Gay
Get Your Filthy Church Off Of Me
Keep Your Dogma Off My Lawn
Eight is Hate
Focus On Your Own Family
Go Back To Utah
Separate Is Not Equal
For the Men: I Just Got F*cked Without Lube
= Rights
End the War on Love
What Would Gay Jesus Do?
Commitments of Love are Never Wrong
2nd Class Citizen (with an arrow pointing at your head)
Separation of Church and Hate
I Am a Victim of H8
My Pedophile Priest Says My Husband and I Are Going to Hell
Mormon Hate Out of My State
MOR_ON!
You Got Your Bigotry in My Peanut Butter
You Can't Amend Love
Ban Itchy & Scratchy
...

I just started one thread to keep the protest information in one place.

I knew he'd try and sneak Ban Itchy and Scratchy in there. :p

Let us be as miserable as you are.

Stop overcrowding in schools

Repeal 8 and we'll get rid of Richard Simmons for you.

Hey, it'll keep us off the streets

Hint: Married people pay more taxes.

Please explain this one for me.
____________________________

I've one idea (see my signature)

I gotta hit up Office Depot. Wait, they're not LDS-owned, are they?

(Transferred from other thread... Wait, I should move the Office Depot/LDS think to the other thread? Right?)

This is Bill, John's partner. Two chants/signs we came up with are:

"Separation of Church and State!....Died 11/4/08!"
and
"Keep your HATE out of our State!"

I think I'm going to go with
Protect ALL Families
Repeal H8

Well, you know it's a Simpsons reference, right? But I don't know where it came from. I said to iSm at the protest that I wanted to carry a sign that said 'Ban Itchy & Scratchy'. It would be fun to see people laugh at it. I have a habit of getting too serious sometimes so I have to laugh at myself or whatever I'm dealing with from time to time.

Besides, Itchy demonstrates time and time again cruelty to the feline population. As a mouse, he should oppose the idea of persecuting others for mice and rats are the target of many humans trying to rid the world 'of his kind'.
:D

Yesterday I liked the "But I Only Want To Marry ONE Woman!", but that works better at the MORMON Church, as did "Get Your Magic Underwear Out Of My Civil Rights"

You can marry multiple people and I can't marry one?

Though I think I'm going with one of these:

Separate is not equal
Protect all families
Repeal legalized discrimination
Who is going to stand up for you when they come for YOUR rights?

Personally, I think that the ones referencing polygamy will have a greatly diminished effect. While yes, there are some in the church (mainly separatist sects) who DO still believe in polygamy, the LDS church officially is against it. IMO, it makes one appear less edumucated.

Just my $0.02 on the topic

(but don't get me wrong: I still think the signs are funny :)).

And we wouldn't want LDS to think the irony of their stance on traditional marriage is lost on us. :D

For the Saddleback crowd:

My purpose in life = Love not H8

or something along those lines

"There's nothing traditional about bigotry"
"Shove bigots back in the closet, repeal 8"

OK sorry, I'm pretty ticked off.

"Just 'cause you can't marry two wives doesn't make it right that gays can't marry."

More angry rants from the Teni.

My point was (I did not express it) the "generalized view" of Mormonism brings up polygamy. Even though the LDS has formally disavowed it. They are still identified as polygamists. So, traditional marriage!

Much like the generalization of the truly misinformed and/or ignorant that gays are abberant sexual deviants and should not have rights to marry or adopt cause the're all pedophiles and sickos.

You would think, after all this time, the Mormon Church would still recognize and remember what it is all about to be persecuted.

I'm still baffled why people are threatened by the marriage thing anyway, a good thing, I think.

I probably won't use this as it would carry a host of unintended layers of meaning, but I like it in theory:

"Gay: It's the New Black"

Victim of a H8 crime

I wish I was a chicken,
Then I'd have rights too

(picture of chicken) > (pic of 2 male stick figures)

Protect traditional bigotry
Reinstate apartheid

How about I marry your daughter?

Hypocrites
Remember what persecution feels like?

Heh, pretty good!

The Purpose Driven Protest
Separate Church and State

You have nothing to apologize for!

One can take the practical approach:

Gay marriage boosts the economy, fvckers.

I am a fan of the equality is for everyone signage. A giant sign boasting the yellow equal sign on a blue backround,the generic gender pairings 4howing male/male, female/female, male/female.It's not just about marriage, obviously, it's fundamental human and civil rights.

Don't H8 Progress. Hate ignorance.

I like yours too! I was trying to think of good riffs off the book title.

Here's a good one that should confuse a few H8ers:


(Source)

Andrew: perhaps if you edit the image so the parents are of the same gender?

- F**k 8
- H8 is Enough
- 8 Looks like balls on it's side.
- Use your balls - Turn 8 Upside-down.
- 8=> weiners

hmmm

I'll probably go with something along the lines of:

My Marriage is not Protected by a Weaker Constitution

or Equal Rights instead of H8

But Moulin Rouge keeps coming to mind and I want

Truth
Beauty
Freedon
And Above all Love
Not H8

or

Hedonists Against H8

or

Fvck you Fvcking Fvcks

I LOVE MY NEW SIGN.

It's not snarky like my other signs, but cleverly and artistically expresses my overwhelming sadness and disappointment in my once-beautiful California.


Haha, from the man who brought you costume changes ... at a Halloween Costume Party .... I now will have a new sign for every protest, so that I don't have to wear the same sign twice.


How Gay Is That?!?



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As for the polygamy angle when protesting the Mormons, I'm sticking with it (and yes, my old sign ... today's will likely be my last new one). A vital part of my conversation with my Mormon friends about Prop 8 was an analogy to their dislike of society's foisting a definition of marriage upon them ... even though neither of them support polygamy.

They had to admit to me that they reviled the concept of the United States codifying in law a definition of marriage that was contrary to their own. And though they would not admit the short leap from there to their own vote to codify a defintion of marriage for me and mine, I could see my small victory in their eyes.


Polygamy stays on the menu for me ... at any future Mormon protests - and I hope there are many.

I like this one.

:D

Is this too much?

You are one sick sonofabitch

No wonder I like you!

You could always put a nice quote from Brigham Young,

Children deserve...
Two parents who love them and love eachother,
Not two parents who had an accident and are coping

That deserves a standing ovation Morrigoon!

:)

How about this one?

Remember Loving v. Virginia - Equal Rights NOW!

Excellent, Matt!

Some great signs at Long Beach tonight, lots of them poultry-themed.


E.G. - "Could I Marry a Man If I Was a Chicken?"




Also got a kick out of "Teh Gay Iz Heer"

There was a "Love thy GAYBOR" sign at the SLC event.

My absolute favorite from last night was:

Traditional Marriage =
1 Man and 1 Property.

One of my favorites last night was:

"PROPOSITION 8 KILLS


kittens"

Our No on 8 sign was stolen from our property last night.

Fvckers!

Around here there are crews of people going around cleaning up campaign signs. I think they are hired by the county but I'm not sure.

It could have been an overzealous worker rather than an anti-gay SOB.
(Or if they get paid by the number of signs they bring in......)

Bunch of folks dressed quasi chicken-like with signs like "Cage Free Gays" and "Free Range Homos"

Hahaha. Otherwise, the prevalent chicken theme of Long Beach was missing from tonight's MASSIVE Silver Lake Rally and March. But OMG otherwise, and I will post about it ad naseum in the Post Prop 8 Protest Information Thread.

If you don't like gay weddings then don't have one.

Entertaining article from a mormon who voted no on 8. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10798657

Great article. Thanks for posting.

Hahahahaha


I think I just found my next sign. :p

Yeah: that's a good one!

We the people*

*gays need not apply.

That was great. Funny and astute- he seems pretty cool.

I like that one. I think I also like:

Protect ALL Marriages
Repeal H8

Maybe:

Civil Unions Take Away Civil Rights
Protect All Marriages

Oh wait wait...

Stop Gay Shack-Ups
Let Them Marry!

How's about this one (feeding on their fears):

Gay Marriage
Because Al-Qaeda Would Not Approve

"Osama bin Laden supports straight marriage"

Those last are great.

My friend Pieter's sign said, "Prop my balls!"
It made me laugh.

Found these on my Madonna message board (I think iSm will be amused):

I like the second one!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

I'm not sure what I should have for a sign - I'm going this Saturday.

There were plenty of good ideas in this thread, but ultimately I went with the borscht-belt joke from that Kirby guy in Utah that wendybeth linked to in one of these Prop 8 threads (maybe "Prop 8 Goes to Sea").

I think I'm gonna go with "Remember Virginia v. Loving - EQUAL RIGHTS NOW!"

LOL. I read this as "Remember Vagina v. Loving". More coffee please

Actually, I think that's the better sign for Teh Gay.

A minor point. I was reading an op-ed piece in the LA Times this morning. The author said something about how silly it looks for gay marriage supporters to be waving the blue "Vote No on 8" signs around. I have to agree. The time for voting on 8 has passed. Make new signs ya cheap bastahds.

:D

I'm thinking of this one:

Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone vote.


Or, does that sound stupid?

I love that one, DP.


And I agree about the No on 8 signs. It's cheap ... but, hey, people have them and they're convenient to use. Better that than nothing, and I don't expect everyone to make their own sign.


(But I kinda expect more gays to be like me and have a new one for each protest!)

Foam board at the dollar store costs....a dollar.


Just saw a sign in the link JW Bear posted - "Seperate but Equal the SEQUEL?"

The No On 8 signs are an instantly recognizable way of stating the position. When you see a bunch of people standing on a street corner, you can't tell what position they're taking until you're within reading distance UNLESS someone is holding one of the two already-known signs. You see the blue No On 8 sign, even beyond reading distance, you instantly know what position the protest takes.

That and the rainbow flags that are always there.

Kiss Me, I'm H8LESS!

lol

Okay, so based on the "A recent poll shows that there is a 52.5% chance that you are a Bigot" sign, I had this idea:

"A recent poll shows that 48% of Californians think discrimination is totally gay"

After yesterday I'd like to remind people that if you use 8 in a word (such as H8 = HATE) then you don't need the T.

I saw a lot of signs with "H8TERS". For some reason that confused me every time.

For those in San Francisco, the one sign waver I didn't see yesterday was Frank Chu. I hope this doesn't mean he is anti-gay (I have seen him at pretty much every SF event I've ever gone to no matter how crowded).

I didn't see him. But I was nowhere near the front of anything.

So.... any ideas for today's protest signs?

I will probably buy some white ribbon to tie into knots to give away (whiteknot.org), to start.