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www.myspace.com/weberphoto www.cwphoto.tumblr.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008) Sometimes, I think I give the American people too much credit. I never made a video about this bill because it seemed so fucking unlikely to pass. I truly thought that America, as a culture, wished for progression. Everybody. Thank your religions that spew hatred. Thank your bigoted mentalities and thank your elders to instilling such prejudiced bullshit into your thick, ape-like skulls. It isn't too late, people. Oppose this shit. Make videos about it. Talk about it. California is supposed to be a progressive state. If this is progression, we are still VERY fucked as a nation, black president or not. "Imagine all the people, living life in peace." -Cody

Proposition Initiative: Save Pluto. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union declassified Pluto, the littlest big planet of the solar system, from a real planet to a dwarf planet. This is a tragedy of monumental proportions and SackBoy, along with your support, is fighting to reclaim Pluto as the ninth planet.

Vote YES on CA Prop 8, a constitutional amendment that states: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."

John Hurt monologue (the proposition)

This is a parody of, and response to, the video called "YES on Proposition 8 (Prop 8) your rights". Visit http://www.noonprop8.com/ (We are in no way affiliated with No On 8)

I won't tell you how to vote; I want you to vote whichever way you earnestly believe is right. I just thought I'd provide some food for thought. Matthew 7:3

11/10/08 - Keith Olbermann delivers an emotional Special Comment on the outcome of California's voting of Prop 8 which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Actor John Cho of the Harold & Kumar movies voices concern on Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban. No on proposition 8.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich discusses the importance of standing up to activist judges.

Keith says do on to others as you would have them do on to you. "If gay people want to get married and be miserable like the rest of us, let 'em" Peter Griffin

Mormon Pres. Tom Monson should have taken some of his own advice and applied it toward his official stance on California Proposition 8, but apparently one of Tom's most vivid learning experiences was not vivid enough. This is a response to the gutless chicken Mormon attempt at response that was made to a video shredding of the Mormon apologist clown MrNirom. Same result, Mormons shredded AGAIN. www.salamandersociety.com

► http://NoOnProp8.com ► http://www.eqca.org ► http://VoteNoOnProposition8.com ► http://VoteNoProp8.org ► http://RepublicansAgainst8.com ► http://HRC.org/10459.htm ► http://EqualityFederation.org PROPOSITION 008: ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. How much money is being raised and spent to pass or defeat California propositions and ballot measures, and what are the sources of the money? Check here to follow the money trail: ► http://tinyurl.com/DebraBowen ► http://electiontrack.com/prop8.php Thoughts during election night... They keep telling us that since it's a matter of human rights and there are still 2-3 million votes not counted - we should wait. Meanwhile, the YES people are dancing in the streets - rejoicing their PREJUDICE!!! Yet even if we manage to squeak out a last minute victory (which seems at this point a tenuous hope at best) I know that in "liberal" Los Angeles county where I live, the vote was split 50% - 50%. As I write this it seems that there were only 20,806 more votes for Prop 8 than against. So as I walk around today, one out of every two people I see DO NOT want me to have equal rights. They see me as inferior, because I'm gay. And that is so hurtful, and it makes me unbelievably mad. It makes me want to scream at them. Makes me want to try to hurt every one of the over 5,160,000 California voters for Prop 8 in a way that makes them understand how they've made me feel. How much they failed in their attempt to belittle, to marginalize, to shame me and my love. But my challenge - my true challenge of character - is that the OTHER one of those two people DO want me to have equal rights. They DO value me as a human being, and they DO believe that our country really does stand for "Liberty and Justice For ALL" and that "All" includes Gay Americans like me. I want to hug them. All 4,760,000 plus of them. And as I walk around, I have no idea who is who. So I have a choice. Succumb to the tidal wave of bitterness that threatens to overwhelm me? See the glass as half empty, see everyone as a potential Nazi Gay-hating jerk? Or see the good? Believe the glass is half-full? Take heart at the progress Gay Americans have made in such a relatively short time, compared to the slow progress of public opinion in "approving" interracial marriage? It is confusing and emotional. And it has totally ruined my Obama day. The black community voted 75% FOR 8. shocking. it wasnt' so long ago they didn't have rights. I don't understand. Why would anyone not want Cooper to be equal? .... ► http://samharris.com/free ► http://SamTUNES.net ... to download Sam Harris songs and full albums. ► http://AskSamHarris.com ... ask Sam anything, and he'll reply via a vlog. ► http://SamHarris.com/answers ... answer link from the "Ask Sam Harris" series. ► http://MySpace.com/SamHarrisMusic ... keep up to date, and be Sam's MySpace friend! ► http://SamHarris.com ... information, biography, discography and buy cds. LEGAL & BUSINESS CONTACT: http://SamHarris.com/contact.htm © All videos property of Sam Harris --

Proposition 11: Redistricting Although overshadowed by the presidential race, Californians will be asked to vote on 12 propositions in November, 2008. These initiatives, placed on the ballot by either the California state legislature or by California citizens, represent critical state policy choices for Californian voters. Among these hotly contested issues are Proposition 8, which seeks to reverse the California Supreme Court's recent legalization of gay marriage, Proposition 4, which would require parental notification for any abortion performed on a minor, and Proposition 11, which would change the way in which California congressional and legislative district boundaries are drawn. Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Professor Michael Shires explains these complex issues in detail and answers questions regarding the initiatives on this fall's ballot.

Proposition 7: Renewable Energy Although overshadowed by the presidential race, Californians will be asked to vote on 12 propositions in November, 2008. These initiatives, placed on the ballot by either the California state legislature or by California citizens, represent critical state policy choices for Californian voters. Among these hotly contested issues are Proposition 8, which seeks to reverse the California Supreme Court's recent legalization of gay marriage, Proposition 4, which would require parental notification for any abortion performed on a minor, and Proposition 11, which would change the way in which California congressional and legislative district boundaries are drawn. Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Professor Michael Shires explains these complex issues in detail and answers questions regarding the initiatives on this fall's ballot.

Introduction & Proposition 1a: High Speed Rail. Although overshadowed by the presidential race, Californians will be asked to vote on 12 propositions in November, 2008. These initiatives, placed on the ballot by either the California state legislature or by California citizens, represent critical state policy choices for Californian voters. Among these hotly contested issues are Proposition 8, which seeks to reverse the California Supreme Court's recent legalization of gay marriage, Proposition 4, which would require parental notification for any abortion performed on a minor, and Proposition 11, which would change the way in which California congressional and legislative district boundaries are drawn. Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Professor Michael Shires explains these complex issues in detail and answers questions regarding the initiatives on this fall's ballot.

My stance on proposition 8, the polemic amendment of the California Constitution to make marriage a contract accessible only to an opposite sex couple.

Original trailer, preceding the Toronto Film Festival (12 September 2005)

On Countdown, Keith Olbermann issues a Special Comment on Proposition 8. Transcript: If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do not... understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option. They don't want to deny you yours. They don't want to take anything away from you. They want what you want -- a chance to be a little less alone in the world. Only now you are saying to them -- no. You can't have it on these terms. Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they don't cause too much trouble. You'll even give them all the same legal rights -- even as you're taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying, no, you can't marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn't marry? I keep hearing this term "re-defining" marriage. If this country hadn't re-defined marriage, black people still couldn't marry white people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal... in 1967. 1967. The parents of the President-Elect of the United States couldn't have married in nearly one third of the states of the country their son grew up to lead. But it's worse than that. If this country had not "re-defined" marriage, some black people still couldn't marry...black people. It is one of the most overlooked and cruelest parts of our sad story of slavery. Marriages were not legally recognized, if the people were slaves. Since slaves were property, they could not legally be husband and wife, or mother and child. Their marriage vows were different: not "Until Death, Do You Part," but "Until Death or Distance, Do You Part." Marriages among slaves were not legally recognized. You know, just like marriages today in California are not legally recognized, if the people are... gay.

http://www.preservingmarriage.org David Bednar and a group of young adults from California discuss Proposition 8.

http://www.zennie62.com - I went over to cover what turned out to be a lively rally for San Francisco's Proposition H, an initiative which if passed will set a goal of 100 percent clean energy use in San Francisco by 2040.

(Nov 4, 2008) -- African-American voters in California supported the measure (Proposition 8) to ban same-sex marriage at a 70% clip. This figure is contrasted with the 49% of whites, 49% of Asians and 53% of Latinos who supported banning gay marriage via Proposition 8: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=CAI01p1 Nationally, 95% of black voters supported Barack Obama when casting their votes: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p1 What this means is that the civil rights victory which many African-Americans felt Obama's election achieved is not a success that this critical Obama voting bloc wished to share with their gay brothers and sisters. Proposition 8 passed on Nov 4, 2008 by a vote of 52.5% to 47.5%: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/59.htm As you might imagine, the success of Proposition 8 and the corresponding exit polling is not going over well in many liberal quarters: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-tenenbaum/civil-rights-victory-for_b_141539.html "A good friend of mine, who happens to be black, had called me last week. With the election still in doubt, and a great deal of hateful prejudice being directed in Obama's direction, my friend asked me how so many Americans could be so foolish. Yet, before the conversation was over, he told me that he was having a hard time voting against Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative that would deny rights to millions of Californians." The international press is already reporting the story and seems prepared to blame Obama: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3388430/Barack-Obama-may-have-helped-California-Proposition-8-gay-marriage-ban-pass.html "Barack Obama may have helped California Proposition 8 gay marriage ban pass " And if that weren't enough, supporters of Proposition 8 used Obama himself in a mailing seeking to bolster their cause: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/proposition-supporter-uses-obama-ad-campaign/ "ProtectMarriage.com sent a mailer with quotes the Illinois senator made this year -- indicating that he thinks marriage should be limited to a woman and man." This is not the first time that Barack Obama has found himself in hot water with the GLBT community. Earlier in the 2008 campaign, Obama recruited controversial "ex-gay" singer Donnie McClurkin to headline a South Carolina gospel tour aimed at ginning up support for the now President-elect: http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2008/09/19/obama-mcclurkin-redux-he-throws-us-under-the-bus-again/ Already under siege from the left wing of the Democratic Party for actions such as his reversal on FISA legislation, Obama could be facing a civil war within his support base as news of the Proposition 8 exit polling spreads. * * *

Volunteers on both sides discuss viewpoints and experiences throughout the Proposition 8 campaign. For more web exclusive election videos visit: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/election08/ Video Your Vote: http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote

10/25 - Bill O'Reilly discusses gay marriage and Proposition 8 on The O'Reilly Factor. He shows the clip of Ellen DeGeneres on her show opposing Prop 8 and Sarah Palin. Then O'Reilly brings Sonja Edding Brown of ProtectMarriage.com to answer some questions. They also talk about the recent donation of the California Teachers Association who made a million dollar contribution opposing Prop 8. Visit http://www.NoOnProp8.com or http://www.eqca.org for more information.

The Wire Season 1, Episode 10 Prop Joe, Stringer, and Omar talking.