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Same-sex marriage backers go to TV - New ads ask viewers to 'open hearts and minds' on the issue.
Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/8/7 | Jim Sanders

Posted on 10/08/2007 7:59:28 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: puroresu

I was expecting a typical BS homosexuals with “children” trying to look normal.


41 posted on 10/08/2007 8:59:34 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SmithL
"open hearts and minds"

That's what they claim they want now. After normalizing this behavior they will proceed to opening other parts of the anatomy.

42 posted on 10/08/2007 9:00:31 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: puroresu

BTW where did you see the image?

the newspaper link does not have the ad.


43 posted on 10/08/2007 9:02:12 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: puroresu

BTW where did you see the image?

the newspaper link does not have the ad.

The article says they want to start 500000 conversations. It will be the same as other places, 500000 conversations about the fact homosexual behavior is abnormal and should not be endorsed.


44 posted on 10/08/2007 9:03:01 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SmithL

When will they get it through their thick heads that homosexuality has absolutely nothing to do with hearts and minds? I wish someone had the temerity to put together a public service announcement detailing the risks and dangers associated with homosexuality and the other perversions that have now been included with the movement.

At the most basic level homosexuality is just functionally incorrect as is the idea of homosexual marriage. It is a confusion of otherwise normal drives for friendship and partnership with the fulfillment of a sexual fetish. I do not really care about that so much, people do things that are incorrect all the time. I draw the line when they are working to change laws to reflect their sexual peculiarities and force not just acceptance but push forth the false idea that same sex marriage is no different than normal marriage.
It is indeed different.

Everyone knows what it means to have a normal sexual relationship though it is popular now to pretend otherwise.
They ask “What is normal” and then because they refuse to answer the question assume others are as challenged as they.
They can pretend but an anus will never be a sex organ and long after many of these are wearing colostomy bags collecting sympathy cards and quilts it still will not be.

They use the hearts and minds crap to derail the brain in favor of a trip down a land of delusion. They should just have their partnerships quietly and leave the rest of the world alone and we most certainly would leave them alone provided they stop exposing themselves in public restrooms and having sex in public parks and such. We do not have to indulge them and their political ideas in order to be open minded with big hearts. I don’t see any need for changing things as they are and most certainly don’t want to do anything to make homosexuality and its ugly partners bisexuality and transexuality more visible in society.


45 posted on 10/08/2007 9:13:32 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Saying "No" does not mean that you have no heart but often means you clearly have a mind.)
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To: SmithL
Let the Left waste its money on TV ads. They've been trying to convince the American people to allow same sex marriage for years and they've all lost on the issue.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

46 posted on 10/08/2007 9:16:08 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Eastbound
You can cohabit with the person you love. Nothing in California law prohibits gay men and women from living together if they want. Where does it say the union needs to be officially sanctioned for them to be together?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

47 posted on 10/08/2007 9:18:12 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: longtermmemmory
I haven't seen the ad, but the article describes it. It shows a happy bride running down the aisle to her groom, but she gets tripped and falls on her face. We're then lectured about how terrible it is that people can't "marry" the person they love if that person is of the same sex. But we're shown a normal marriage. My guess is that people would roll on the floor laughing at an ad showing a gay guy running down the aisle to his (ahem) groom, tossing floral bouquets, only to fall flat on his face when someone trips him. Actually, I'd kinda like to see that, but I'm bad! :-)
48 posted on 10/08/2007 9:19:26 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: wbill
Amen. And California law already provides gays and lesbians with all the rights, privileges and benefits of marriage except the formal name. You'd think they would be happy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

49 posted on 10/08/2007 9:20:21 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kbennkc
This should be taught as a example of creeping incrementalism. Way back when government first started getting involved in regulating a sacred ritual this battle was as good as lost.

I don't believe gov't regulation of marriage itself has led us to this point. The lowering of social mores has created this mess. But gov't interference with everything else - such as education, adoption, health insurance - has added to it.

The main reason that changing the legal definition of marriage affects the rest of us is that it affects everything else: Our children are forced to learn about it in public school. Even if we don't send our kids to public school, we're forced to pay taxes for it. And then "same-sex couples" can adopt children - maybe even our own children if something happens to us. Insurance companies have to insure them as a married couple. Etc. Etc.

Because gov't is involved in everything, changing the legal definition of marriage affects everything.

And, although I may be flamed for saying it, the creeping incrementalism comes not only in the lowering of social mores, but in the use of sperm banks and surrogate mothers. I feel sympathy for any couple unable to bear children together. But, once it became acceptable for a married man and woman to go outside the marriage and essentially bring in a third party to have a child, and then put only their names on the birth certificate, the role of birth parent was reduced to lab rat. Marriage became nothing more than two people wanting to be together. And now here we are with two women or two men equating themselves with men and women who cannot bear children together, using the same technologies to have children, and putting their own names on the birth certificates.

50 posted on 10/08/2007 9:20:26 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: puroresu
The fact they have to use a heterosexual couple undermines their case. Why can't they make it honestly? Because they know people are against it so they have to lie about it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

51 posted on 10/08/2007 9:22:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SmithL

Who are these “proponents” and why are they in the shadows?

Why doesn’t the Sacremento Bee say who the “proponents” are?

Follow the Money.


52 posted on 10/08/2007 9:23:33 AM PDT by subterfuge (It's GREAT, to be, a Florida Gator!)
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To: Tired of Taxes
Marriage is really about acknowledging sexual relations between two people as legitimate in the eyes of God and society to provide legal recognition for the next generation. It has nothing to do with adults' private sexual desires. You can have sex without marriage or as is true with homosexuals, you can have sex without any possibility of reproduction being involved whatsoever.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

53 posted on 10/08/2007 9:24:55 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: longtermmemmory

Very stuck on stupid, but I think its gonna change. I was actually talking to some people on the hill last weekend and for once they actually are coming up with a plan.


54 posted on 10/08/2007 9:26:24 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: puroresu

The ad is trying to appeal to the emotions of women. What woman wants to be humiliated while walking down the aisle? They portray a situaion where many women might say; “I don’t wish that upon anyone, even the poor little queers. Let’s let them get married so they are no longer humiliated.”


55 posted on 10/08/2007 9:37:16 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (Pray for our nation's boys, our future will be determined by the kind of men we bring them up to be.)
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To: wbill

I would almost agree that civil unions would be the answer ... or having government get out of the marriage business entirely.

Except for one thing: forcing priests/ministers and organized religion to marry them is the next logical step on the campaign.


56 posted on 10/08/2007 9:44:31 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Why should there be civil unions? They’re just marriages without the name. Why should society in any way ratify same-sex pairings?


57 posted on 10/08/2007 9:51:55 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: MichiganCheese

You’re exactly right.


58 posted on 10/08/2007 9:54:17 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: puroresu

It’s not about ‘marriage’ in the legal or religious sense. It’s about thought/mind control.


59 posted on 10/08/2007 10:05:21 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: SmithL

“to change the climate here,” said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, which is coordinating the campaign.”

Guess they did not get the good word from ALGORE that climate change is bad.


60 posted on 10/08/2007 10:19:27 AM PDT by rod1
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