{"id":1469,"date":"2008-10-14T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:45:50","slug":"help-fight-bigotry-support-the-no-on-prop-8-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/14\/help-fight-bigotry-support-the-no-on-prop-8-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Fight Bigotry: Support the No on Prop 8 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, California&#8217;s constitutional right to marriage is under attack by the usual suspects in the form of a ballot initiative (called Proposition 8).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagefloatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/downloads\/efa_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Vote No on Prop 8\" width=\"184\" height=\"79\" \/>You may &#8211; like I did, until recently &#8211; think that it was a stunt that faced little chance of success.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That, unfortunately, isn&#8217;t true.\u00c2\u00a0 Big money has come from religious organizations (Mormon church, Knights of Columbus, etc.) and the latest polls have opinion standing 47-42<em> in favor of banning marriage equality<\/em> in California.<\/p>\n<p>California ballot initiatives are largely advertising campaign contests, which require an enormous amount of money in those media markets.\u00c2\u00a0 The money gap between both sides is substantial (perhaps because so many of us took Prop 8&#8217;s defeat for granted).\u00c2\u00a0 According to a recent email from MassEquality, &#8220;the anti-gay right has raised $25.4 million &#8211; that&#8217;s 10 million dollars more than our side.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 This has never been &#8211; and will not be &#8211; a place where I regularly promote donations.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m hoping you&#8217;ll consider supporting the Vote No On Prop 8 efforts with <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ga4.org\/01\/equalityforall?qp_source=blacknell\">a contribution of as little as $5<\/a> or with your time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/action\/phone-bank\">phone banking<\/a> (you can do that from your own home &#8211; no need to be in California).\u00c2\u00a0 You can learn more about the campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So many campaigns that we already pour our time and money into can often feel as if they won&#8217;t make a much of a difference.\u00c2\u00a0 But this is important.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an essential step to preserving one of the biggest steps forward in the pursuit of a more just and decent society.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Please help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, California&#8217;s constitutional right to marriage is under attack by the usual suspects in the form of a ballot initiative (called Proposition 8).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 You may &#8211; like I did, until recently &#8211; think that it was a stunt that faced little chance of success.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That, unfortunately, isn&#8217;t true.\u00c2\u00a0 Big money has come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}