A Prop 8 challenge for swankers - Page 19

Morrigoon · 10-28-2008, 10:16 AM

So this morning on my way to work I looked at the corner where that stupid Yes sign is. The sign was still there, but also on the corner, in a more prominent position, was a No sign

Kevy Baby · 10-28-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Betty

Mark and Brian had a funny sketch I heard this morning that was a replay from yesterday... a spoof of the Yes on 8 ads... not sure if you can hear it but it really made fun of them. If you vote no on 8, you'll turn gay, so will your kids, even your dog will be gay, type of thing.

Go to this link and choose "Prop 8 Ad 10-27-2008"

It is really funny.

Morrigoon · 10-28-2008, 10:30 AM

How about distributing 100 flyers?

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Okay guys, I don't know about you, but I'm getting worried about this election. I think it's time for some grass-roots efforts to get the word out there about voting No on Prop 8. So here's my challenge to you:

Create a flyer (your own or one shared by another LoTer) that reminds people to vote No. Could be as simple as a circle slash with Prop 8 in the center, or as detailed as you want, I don't care, as long as it reminds people why it's so important to vote no.
Go to Kinko's, make 100 copies of your flyer, and distribute all of them in a manner of your choosing (on car windshields in the Target parking lot, on your neighbors' doorsteps, hand them out in person in a public place, whatever).
Then post here that you've done it.

I haven't got much in the way of prizes, but I will give a reindeer Mickey ear hat to everyone who completes the challenge (While supplies last. Yes, the ones from last year's Xmas party).

Feel free to use this thread to discuss/share flyer and distribution ideas.

My hope is that we'll all (myself included) feel inspired to continue the effort and spread the word even further than the initial hundred. But I can tell you from experience that handing out more than a hundred flyers is a lot to bite off, so please start with that, and if you still feel inspired, then go make more copies, etc.

Morrigoon · 10-28-2008, 01:03 PM

Just spent my lunch arguing Prop 8 with some random guy I shared a table with in the food court. Sadly, I believe I was unsuccessful. He's convinced that his kids are going to be taught gay marriage in school, and nothing will convince him otherwise.

Promo-Man · 10-28-2008, 02:31 PM

Prop 8 is just full of hate

Chernabog · 10-28-2008, 03:04 PM

I'm reading all these accounts of Mormons from out of state spending $30,000+ on Yes on 8, pouring their life savings into this.

How amazingly sad. To spend all your money trying to block someone else's right to marry in a state a thousand miles away.

Cadaverous Pallor · 10-28-2008, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Betty

They would shun others - why not let all the others shun them instead.

Shunning doesn't make anything better. Neither does vilifying.

These are misled people. They only want what's best and they are scared. They need to be educated, not locked away from reality, left victims of ignorance and evil persuasion.

I hope no one would leave me behind when other revolutions show up on my doorstep.

Chernabog · 10-28-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

These are misled people. They only want what's best and they are scared. They need to be educated, not locked away from reality, left victims of ignorance and evil persuasion.

They need to be educated but so many cannot be educated -- because they don't WANT to be educated. They don't want to open their eyes, and that is their moral failing. There's a world of difference between the ignorant person open to knowledge and the ignorant person proud of how closed-minded they are.

innerSpaceman · 10-28-2008, 05:10 PM

Yep, it astounded me how my otherwise most good-hearted friends who, ya know, somehow feature some frontier Jesus Christ in their cult religion, can consider it the moral high ground to doom other people to a life of relative loneliness.

But if that's their moral viewpoint, how can they be "educated" out of it?

Can you be educated out of yours?

alphabassettgrrl · 10-28-2008, 05:49 PM

If a more logical argument were made, then yes, I hope I would adopt that viewpoint. I've tried to live my life by reasonably rational layouts, so if a better argument exists, I'd like to give it a chance.

I saw a new "no on 8" sign coming home from school today. Yay!

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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	So this morning on my way to work I looked at the corner where that stupid Yes sign is. The sign was still there, but also on the corner, in a more prominent position, was a No sign __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Just spent my lunch arguing Prop 8 with some random guy I shared a table with in the food court. Sadly, I believe I was unsuccessful. He's convinced that his kids are going to be taught gay marriage in school, and nothing will convince him otherwise. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Promo-Man Actor / Comedian / Santa Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The North Pole of Anaheim Posts: 131	Prop 8 is just full of hate
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Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	I'm reading all these accounts of Mormons from out of state spending $30,000+ on Yes on 8, pouring their life savings into this. How amazingly sad. To spend all your money trying to block someone else's right to marry in a state a thousand miles away. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Yep, it astounded me how my otherwise most good-hearted friends who, ya know, somehow feature some frontier Jesus Christ in their cult religion, can consider it the moral high ground to doom other people to a life of relative loneliness. But if that's their moral viewpoint, how can they be "educated" out of it? Can you be educated out of yours?
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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	If a more logical argument were made, then yes, I hope I would adopt that viewpoint. I've tried to live my life by reasonably rational layouts, so if a better argument exists, I'd like to give it a chance. I saw a new "no on 8" sign coming home from school today. Yay! __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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