No on Proposition 8, California

[queerbychoice]

If you donate money to the No on Proposition 8 campaign between now and Sunday, philanthropist Steve Bing will donate a matching amount. And in the process, you can help Susan and me get married!

I just donated. Ask your friends and family to donate! Or ask them to make signs, like I've been doing. Or to join a phone bank.

Comments

[nodesignation.livejournal.com]

That's odd about the phone banking. I signed up here in Oregon for No on 8 and we've got the phone bank set up for sunday.

Also, good to know about the matching donations. I had heard HRC make that announcement and it's nice to know that my donation will still be doubled even if I don't donate through the HRC (which I would refuse to do).

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I loathe the HRC, not only for the usual ENDA reasons but even more so because they plaster "It's not a choice! We were born that way!" all over their stupid website. I'm so glad they're not running No on 8 themselves. I'm a bit frustrated as it is with the timidity and heterocentricity of most of the No on 8 ads, but it would be infinitely worse if the HRC were in charge.

[ra-sar.livejournal.com]

Ellen actually bought tv time and put out an advertisement where she asks people to vote no on 8. A bit late, but better than nothing for sure.

I just donated some: I want to make sure you and all of my Californian friends can continue to get married, of course, but I think it's possibly as important, if not more, that a decision from the highest court in a state that applies strict scrutiny to distinctions made on the basis of sexual orientation stay on the books as good law. If it's overturned legislatively, no other court will dare go that far in protecting lgbt right--marriage or otherwise--for decades. If it stays on the books, we a chance for other courts to follow suit. Not even the Connecticut decision went that far (they used intermediate scrutiny). Perhaps if it weren't for Prop 8 they would have gone further...

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that this afternoon and edited the entry. I'm placated now; I'll stop complaining about her.

Yay for your donation!

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I'm painfully unemployed right now, but this issue is extremely important to me and to almost everyone I know. I just donated $6.66 of my no money, getting it matched via your link. This is SO IMPORTANT!

[sammka.livejournal.com]

I donated! Yay marriage!

You should tell your lj friends to PRE-EMPTIVELY donate as a wedding gift!