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Creep of the Week: Protectmarriage.com

Woe unto the scared shitless anti-gay conservative in a state like California. Ever since the courts gave the go-ahead to legal marriages for same-sex couples, folks who can only stomach the "one-penis+one-vagina=marriage" equation have been freaking out. And we all know the preferred coping method of the anti-gay right when things aren't going their way: money.
Needless to say, there has been a lot of anti-gay money thrown at the state of California these past few months.
As you know – or as you should know – Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage amendment, will be on the November ballot in California. You may remember that Michigan passed a similar amendment in 2004, though at no point has Michigan ever had legalized marriage for gays and lesbians. California, on the other hand, does. Which means that if Proposition 8 passes it would take away the rights of same-sex couples to marry there.
The main group in favor of Proposition 8, http://www.Protectmarriage.com, is pulling out all the stops to try to get this thing passed, including, of course, exploiting that time-honored anti-gay chestnut: children.
In a TV ad the group is airing, a little girl comes home from school excited to tell her mother about what she learned that day.
"I learned how a prince can marry a prince and how I can marry a princess," the little girl says while handing a copy of the children's book "King & King" to her mother who reacts with a look of abject horror.
"Think it can't happen?" a pasty bald guy in a rumbled suit asks as he ambles into the frame. He then goes on to explain how after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts children were being forced to gay-marry each other all over the Commonwealth. Or something like that.
We then watch as the mother leans toward her child and although we can't hear what they're saying, I'm fairly certain she says to her, "Honey, if you're telling me that you've become a raging bull dyke then I'm not going to love you any more and am going to have to kick you out on the streets just like the Honorable Dick Cheney did with his daughter, Mary."
It's a very touching mother-daughter moment.
There's only one problem: The commercial is total bullshit.
According to Equality for All, the group fighting Proposition 8, "Not one word in Prop 8 mentions education, and no child can be forced, against the will of their parents, to be taught anything about health and family issues at school. California law prohibits it, and the Yes on 8 campaign knows they are lying. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley has already ruled that this claim by Prop 8 proponents is 'false and misleading.'"
Not that proponents of anti-gay marriage amendments have ever cared much for facts, or for judges for that matter. It's the law that got us in to the trouble of having to treat people equally in the first place, isn't it?
At this juncture, the anti-gay supporters of Proposition 8 have nearly 10 times the amount of funding that the Equality for All people have. Money to pass this amendment is pouring in from religious conservatives from all over.
Legalized marriage in California has implications for the entire country. They know that. You need to know that, too. And while the huge high profile donations from folks like Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg are awesome, the No On 8 folks need all the help they can get. So log onto http://www.NoOnProp8.com and give what you can. No matter where you live, you have a stake in this.

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