Prop 8 Protest Information Thread

[CoasterMatt]

My dad has advocated the "waiting period for a marriage" for a long time now. He especially became interested in that after my sister's first marriage.

[CoasterMatt]

I'll be attending Saturday - I need to be a part of this, and I'll take plenty of pictures.

[innerSpaceman]

Apparently, the whole choice canard is behind lots of the antipathy towards gay marriage rights.

No matter who thinks such things, you have to wonder how they can manage such a complex task as tying their shoes when they can't seem to make the leap from "Hmmm, did I choose to be straight" to the obvious answer of the gay choice question.

Then, of course, for anyone still with us past the neanderthal stage of human brain power .... the question remains ... so what if it is?

How does that choice invalidate in any way my right as free being to select the mate I want to spend my life with?


Of course, it's not a choice. And of course ... it is.


Don't be concerned with facebook jerkwad. He's a mental amoeba.



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But yeah, I can see the perspective of sore losers a bit. We lost, why don't we just accept it gracefully?


HA!


Maybe this is how it had to happen! Maybe this is what's needed to awake the sleeping giant. I hope to see some more awakening this weekend.

Maybe Prop 8 had to fail so this could be decided, once and for all, by the California Supreme Court ... instead of going back and forth in dueling ballot battles forever.




Yes of course this is how it had to happen.

How do I know?


Because that's how it happened.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Isaac

Grrrr..... Some jerk on Facebook posted this:

If the courts come up with a decision that the religious "right" doesn't like, they automatically throw around the phrase "legislating from the bench". I say ignore the comment. This person is infested with fear. He/she is so not worth debating with.

[Morrigoon]

Integration was legislated from the bench. Just because the mob didn't choose it, doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.

[Morrigoon]

I don't know who all here has joined OCEC group on Facebook, but I just got this message, and thought I'd share:

URGENT: We just learned that TOMORROW (Friday) at NOON, the Mormons are holding an urgent Prop 8 Press Conference in the main ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Ana, at 201 E. Macarthur Blvd.

We MUST be there in front of the hotel to greet them peacefully and get our own press coverage.

The Doubletree Hotel is located 0.2 miles along Macarthur Blvd. NW of the 55 freeway, and 300 feet from S. Main St., nr. Imperial Promenade.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Sa...carthur+Blvd.+

They are asking their "Yes" supporters to bring their "Yes on Prop 8" signs and want to have 250 people in attendance with signs of any kind.

We MUST have equivalent press coverage, so it is ESSENTIAL that we be in front of the hotel with our signs, representing the righteous.

Their pitch will most likely be their right to pass whatever laws they want as well as their First Amendment Rights.

They want all nationalities and faith groups represented (even the Tongan Mormans!)

They are upset over the display of intolerance they have been experiencing the past week and want the media to know that!!!

OCEC


Note: I want to emphasize "PEACEFULLY greet." They are there to make themselves look like the victims and voice how they have experienced intolerance from all our protests. Let's not prove them right. Let's remind the media who the real victims of prop 8 are.

Hmm, if I had to venture a guess, I'd say they're holding this press conference because they know there's a little sump'n sump'n in the way of a NATIONAL PROTEST going on the next day.

[innerSpaceman]

Well Hell, of course I can't get to Orange County in the middle of a work day ... and I daresay most folks nearer by can't do that either.


But, sigh, this hits me as far more important than tomorrow's rally. This must be met with counter-measures ... so i hope some good people somewhere in the O.C. are available and up to it.


Not necessarily LoT people, just good people ... of which we are a sub-set.

[Isaac]

Focus On The Family, which donated half a million $ to yes on 8, is now planning layoffs.

Focus on the Family planning layoffs

Comments 35 | Recommend 0
November 13, 2008 - 4:09PM
MARK BARNA
THE GAZETTE
Focus on the Family plans an unspecified number of layoffs, and will be announcing specifics in the next few of days, Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger said Thursday.
This comes on the heels of Focus' announcement in October that 46 employees would be reassigned or laid off next year due to a restructuring of its distribution arm. Focus has a staff of about 1,200 people.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Shoot, I think I have something at work at lunch today. if not I'll try to be there.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

If the courts come up with a decision that the religious "right" doesn't like, they automatically throw around the phrase "legislating from the bench".

And the left would do the exact same thing if the courts did something they didn't like.