{"id":1569,"date":"2008-10-22T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2008-10-22T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:48:01","slug":"prop-8-not-looking-any-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/22\/prop-8-not-looking-any-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: Not Looking Any Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122463078466356397.html\">the WSJ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group leading the fight against the measure, Equality for All, said this week that one of its internal polls shows Proposition 8 leading by four percentage points. The close results of that poll, too, may suggest a dead heat as the Nov. 4 election approaches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like the Mormon church has decided that California is too close to home to let Prop 8 fail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pollsters say that fueling the rise in support for Proposition 8 is an advertising blitz heavily bankrolled by the Mormon Church, which suggests, among other things, that if Proposition 8 doesn&#8217;t pass then schoolchildren will be indoctrinated about gay marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mormon church, concerned about the indoctrination of children?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s rich.\u00c2\u00a0 Can&#8217;t they just stick to baptizing dead people?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/more_on_prop_8.php\">Ta-Nehisi Coates has some excellent analysis<\/a> concerning other areas of support for Prop 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the WSJ: A group leading the fight against the measure, Equality for All, said this week that one of its internal polls shows Proposition 8 leading by four percentage points. The close results of that poll, too, may suggest a dead heat as the Nov. 4 election approaches. It looks like the Mormon church [&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":[4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}