The Los Angeles Times doesn't mince words when it comes to Proposition 8, which it strongly opposed in an editorial this weekend. Describing the ballot measure's intentions as terrible, the paper also takes time to rip into the "Yes on 8" campaign's misleading tactics, like their repeated assertions that same-sex education will infiltrate public schools.
Clever magicians practice the art of misdirection — distracting the eyes of the audience to something attention-grabbing but irrelevant so that no one notices what the magician is really doing. Look over at that fuchsia scarf, up this sleeve, at anything besides the actual trick.The campaign promoting Proposition 8, which proposes to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, has masterfully misdirected its audience, California voters.
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Look at anything except what Proposition 8 is actually about: a group of people who are trying to impose on the state their belief that homosexuality is immoral and that gays and lesbians are not entitled to be treated equally under the law.That truth would never sell in tolerant, live-and-let-live California, and so it has been hidden behind a series of misleading half-truths. Once the sleight of hand is revealed, though, the campaign's illusions fall away.
Here's to hoping California's voters can see through Yes on 8's cloud of bull shit.
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Evangelicals! Don't be fooled by the "Yes on 8" folks! It's a Mormon LDS "trick". They have been instructed by their leaders to deface their own signs and cry "discrimination". Read their "bible" and see what nonsense it is.
Christians! Don't be Tricked! Vote NO on Proposition 8
Some reasons why I will vote YES on Prop 8:
"This is much bigger than just a question of whether or not society should be more tolerant of the homosexual lifestyle. Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of that lifestyle to accept as normal what is not normal, and to characterize those who disagree as narrow-minded, bigoted and unreasonable. Such advocates are quick to demand freedom of speech and thought for themselves, but equally quick to criticize those with a different view and, if possible, to silence them by applying labels like “homophobic . This is more than a social issue — ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach." (Dallin H. Oaks)
"There remain even deeper concerns about the institutional consequences of same-sex marriage for marriage itself. Same-sex marriage would further undercut the idea that procreation is intrinsically connected to marriage. It would undermine the idea that children need both a mother and a father, further weakening the societal norm that men should take responsibility for the children they beget." (From the "Ten Principles on Marriage and the Public Good")
"The research literature on childrearing by homosexual parents is limited. The environment in which children are reared is absolutely critical to their development. Given the current body of research, the American College of Pediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available science." (American College of Pediatricians, January 22, 2004)
Gays and lesbians have the freedom to live their lives as they wish, but marriage is between a man and a woman…only.
I will vote YES on Prop 8
http://yes-on-prop8.blogspot.com/
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>Some reasons why I will vote YES on Prop 8:
Smells like bullshit!