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Okay, here's a rough draft of my flyer (Times New Roman, 18-point type for Header and Footer (bolded here), 14-point type for the body):

What is Proposition 8
And why should you vote NO?

This election season, there is one thing on the ballot with even greater long-term consequences for Californians than just deciding who gets to mess up Washington for the next 4 years.

Proposition 8 is an assault on personal rights. It is an attempt by out-of-state special interests to amend OUR state constitution to make discriminating against gays legal. It not only permits, but requires the state to treat gays like second-class citizens by refusing them the right to get married to their chosen spouse, therefore depriving them of all the rights and privileges that come with marriage and are considered essential for the efficient operation of a combined household. Domestic partnerships are NOT the same, and only convey a small fraction of the rights and privileges afforded to everyone else.

If Proposition 8 passes, over twelve thousand marriages will be nullified. Tens of thousands of future marriages will be forbidden.

41 years ago, in the landmark civil rights case, Loving vs. Virginia, the US Supreme Court ended race-based legal restrictions on marriage. As absurd as bans on interracial marriage sound to us today, so will Proposition 8 sound to our children and grandchildren 40 years from now. And just as you should be embarrassed for previous generations’ racism, so you should be embarrassed for today’s bigots, attempting to write their own phobias into the state’s Constitution. There is no difference between voting to ban gay marriage today and voting to ban interracial marriage half a century ago. Proponents of Proposition 8 are using the same arguments that were used to support anti-miscegenation laws in the early part of the last century. As we are reminded every Martin Luther King Day, separate is not equal. The only way to treat opposite-sex unions the same as same-sex ones without allowing same-sex marriage is to eliminate legal marriage entirely, changing all current marriages into civil unions as well. If you really want to protect marriage, protect it for everyone.

Proposition 8 is hate legislation.

Vote NO on Prop Hate!