A nice video put out by Orange County Equality Coalition. Congrats to them!
An attorney at Chapman University has filed an amicus brief in support of (No on 8) petitioners. This and other filings (on both sides) can all be seen and read here.
1. New Polling on Prop 8:
Field Poll (10/30) -- 44% Yes, 49% No, 7% Undecided
Survey USA (11/1) -- 47% Yes, 50% No, 3% Undecided
If you can volunteer for phone banking, please do so.
You can go here to find a field office to volunteer, or you can
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If you can donate to the No on Prop 8, in any amount, please go
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2. There is one other issue on the ballot I am passionate about, and that is Prop 2, humane treatment for farm animals. Please vote YES. You can read about it here.
3. And of course, there is volunteering for Obama. In swing and battleground states, this is extremely important. Many are also traveling to adjacent states to help.
4. For those in states when senate and congressional races are tight, volunteer for your candidate. It is critical that we get as many dem Senators elected as possible.
5. Have fun doing any and all of the above. It is time for a change and our help with financing and working for that change is the responsibility of us all. We have to make meaningful changes if the generations behind mine have any hope of a decent world to live in, environmentally, and in terms of needed policy changes. My generation is the last generation to reap benefits and leave a mess behind us. We need to change that.
6. Finally, we need to keep all the candidates and workers in our prayers. Fearful people can do bad things. Let us all pray for their safety and for God's protection whether we agree with them or not.
UPDATE 2, At 8:30pm MDT we’re at 1,243 contributors and $62,454. WOW!
UPDATE 1, 7:30pst: They have raised $30K so far, and this is matching, also. Get in there and donate!
Here is the new commercial for No on Prop 8, and it is a very good one (hat tip to Susan Russell):
Now, please take a moment and donate, no matter how large or small, to get and keep this on the air. This is a good commercial that could help undecided people and others to preserve rights for all.
If you do not have a credit card, they give you the address and provide the reporting form at the bottom to send a check or money order.
It is very important we defeat this bill in CA.
Prior to my separation with my beloved, my employer was prepared to offer insurance to my partner of 17 years. We were a "straight" couple who, by then, had been together for well over a decade--a full three years longer than most marriages survive. Sadly, however, he was unable to be insured due to "existing" health conditions. He is diabetic. I was then allowed to get insurance though I am a cancer survivor. I worked for an international environmental non-profit.
I know full well what it means when your partner was hospitalized and you were given NO right to see or attend to them. I lived it each time he was put in the hospital. It was grueling, hurtful and, in one case, dangerous to him.
Did we have equal rights under the law? No. But we had made the choice not to marry.
This very example is the current status for those in relationships where their state law prohibits marriage because of gender. Currently in California, same gender marriage is allowed. Those choosing to marry have full rights under the law.
Under Prop 8, the right to marry will be taken away, thus equal rights under the law will be lost through amending of the California Constitution to outlaw same gender marriage.
A yes vote on Prop 8 will add discrimination to California's constitution.
Marriage, in and of itself, is not holy. It is holy if the couple, regardless of gender, chose to take their license to a church, synagogue or other religious establishment and ask to be married under the rubric of that establishment's belief or should they otherwise ask clergy to officiate.
A Justice of the Peace can just as easily marry a couple, whether they do or do not believe in God. Will we outlaw marriage of atheists next?
Marriage is about rights. It is optionally blessed through belief.
We step willfully on the rights of others when we subject them to our own standards of legal application as Prop 8 intends to do.
And while this is not about religion or belief, it is by the mere force of the fact that religion seems to believe it has a headlock on marriage. Belief and law, though, are different things.
My belief may allow for multiple wives. The law does not. My belief may call for stoning when certain crimes are committed. The law does not. My belief may require rest on Sunday. The law does not. My belief may require covering of my body from head to toe. The law does not. I may believe it is safe to drive 75. The law doesn't agree.
Belief doesn't belong in law, and for good reason. We are not a theocracy.
Keep church and state separate, keep discrimination out of the law.
Vote no on Prop 8.
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