Some California parents are royally – and understandably – pissed at the Yes on 8 campaign.
The campaign, which hopes to revoke gay citizens’ right to marry, recently ran the above ad in which they again claim that same-sex nuptials will infiltrate the public school system. And to prove their point, the commercial’s creators used news footage from a field trip in which students went to see their lesbian teacher get married – footage some parents say exploits their children. And now they’re fighting back:
The parents of the two children most prominently featured in the latest multi-million dollar Prop 8 political spot today termed those ads “distasteful and exploitative” and demanded that the ads be taken off the air immediately. Both sets of parents – Laura Hodder and Matt Alexander and Jen Press and James Moore, sent two hand-delivered letters this morning. The first letter is to the Prop 8 Campaign demanding the ad be removed from its television and its Web site where it is being used as a fund raising tool. The second letter to the San Francisco Chronicle asks them to intervene on their behalf.
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In their letter to the Prop 8 campaign, the parents wrote: “We are absolutely outraged that you have chosen, without permission, to shamelessly hijack the images of our innocent children to promote a cause that we in no way, shape or form support. It is even more maddening that you have willfully and calculatingly edited the images of our children, with menacing music in the background, in a way that is completely contrary to their nature and harmful to them.”
The Yes on 8 campaign would like the public to believe gay people are bad for children, but it seems to us they’re far more dangerous and calculating than any queen we’ve encountered.
The parents held a news conference on the matter, which we’ve included below.
WickedGayBlog.com
Well said! It is disgraceful what the right is doing in California, I am glad these people spoke up!
Dave, WGB
ajax
Yes on 8 = child predators!!!!!
The three parents in this video are awesome. I hope this makes national media.
fredo777
I don’t live in Cali but I’m alerting my uncle who does to vote no on the prop.
Reverend Joe BAYTZIM
It’s quite clear that Jesus is against Proposition 8. The majority of Americans belong to Churches that agree.
Brian
That video is a ready-made No on 8 TV commercial. My heart breaks for those parents.
andy_d
The comments above say it all and say it well. Bravo to the parents involved.
Jim
Um, Rev Joe, there was no such thing as Proposition 8 when Jesus was alive, it ain’t in the Bible, and as far as I’m aware, the concept of separation of church and state did not exist at that time. So, unless you have a hotline to heaven, you, sir, cannot presume to know WHAT Jesus is for or against. Stop giving yourself airs, you presumptuous jerk.
And my gut tells me that “the majority of Americans,” these days, don’t consider themselves to be practicing members of any particular church.
crazylove
actually the bible says render unto ceasar that which is caesar- which is well understood to mean that there is suppose to be a separation of church and state. it’s only the fundamentalist/theocrats which seem to ignore the long held modern understand of the separation. indeed city of god, city of man, as i remember was about that very issue. do you think separation of church and state happened as an inpendent event from religious thinking? they sort of mixed and slowly divided.