SOCIAL: I just donated $50 to the No on 8 campaign

[Peter Bradshaw]

Dollar for dollar match up to $1,000,000 till Sunday.

http://www.noonprop8.com/challenge

I've so much I want to write about this but can't get the words down,
it's really upsetting. How sad is it that people spend so much money
to interfere in an aspect of other peoples lives that will have no
effect at all on their own. There's so many things that $50k could do.
If people vote for McCain/Palin because they're obscenely wealthy and
looking for lower taxes they're selfish and shallow, but at some level
their behaviour makes sense. They're putting themselves over other
people. Voting for 8 is sickening because it's a pure vindictive
attack on people you incorrectly judge. The result will have no effect
on the yes voters lives. If anything the fact that all weddings cause
a good deal of spending and tourism will increase state income meaning
it's a financial win.

Ahh.. I'm incoherent again. In short its a shallow attack that speaks
to the worst parts of human nature.

Give! This is really making realize how important it is to get citizenship.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, mike kosim <mike.kosim at mac.com> wrote:
> It's what happens when people believe that others must suffer so that they
> may prosper.
> Mike
>
> Manish Champsee wrote:
>>
>> This is sad, but shows what we are up against:
>>
>> http://www.sacbee.com/391/story/1308945.html
>>
>> Pam and Rick Patterson have always followed teachings of the Church of
>> Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and tried to live within their means.
>>
>> He drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic to his job at Intel. She is a stay-at
>> home mom who makes most of the family meals and bakes her own bread. The
>> couple, who have five sons between the ages of 3 and 12, live in a
>> comfortable but modest three-bedroom home in Folsom.
>>
>> It's a traditional lifestyle they believe is now at risk. That's why the
>> Pattersons recently made a huge financial sacrifice – they withdrew
>> *$50,000* from their savings and donated it to the Yes on Proposition 8
>> campaign, the ballot measure that seeks to ban same-sex marriage.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dave Snyder <dave at livablecity.org
>> <mailto:dave at livablecity.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    by using this link:
>>
>>    http://www.eqcapac.org/
>>
>>    I don't even think marriage as a legal institution should exist at
>>    all, but the fundamentalist patriarchy is freaking me out.
>>    I took action after reading this email:
>>
>>    Dear David,
>>
>>
>>    The latest tracking polls show that *if the election were held
>>    today among voters who have seen both our ads* and the other
>>    side's ads that *we would WIN!*
>>
>>    Unfortunately, we don't have sufficient funds to get our ads seen
>>    by all the voters who've seen the other side's ads.  So it's that
>>    simple…*without more funds we'll lose*
>>
>>  <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=etINI8PUJiKSIhI&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F>.
>>    But we will win if we have enough money to reach voters.
>>    So_*DONATE NOW!*_
>>
>>  <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=hmKTJhM6IlJZJrL&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F>
>>
>>    A powerful array of motivated groups have organized against
>>    us. Yesterday's /Sacramento Bee/ reported that:
>>
>>        "Mormons…have emerged as the leading financial contributors to
>>        the controversial Nov. 4 ballot measure. Church members have
>>        donated about 40 percent of the $22.8 million raised to pass
>>        the initiative since July."
>>
>>    What is also unfortunate is that only 30,000 people have donated
>>    to the No on 8 campaign compared to the 60,000 who have donated to
>>    the other side.
>>    In a state with about two million LGBT people, in a country with
>>    millions more and tens of millions of straight allies, we have to
>>    get everyone to support this fight. If every LGBT person donates
>>    we can win!
>>
>>    Yesterday's /Sacramento Bee/ also reported on the sacrifices being
>>    made by members of the Yes on 8 campaign:
>>
>>        "That's why Auburn resident David Nielson, 55, is giving…He
>>        and his wife, Susan, live on a budget. The couple donated
>>        $35,000, he said, "because some things are worth fighting
>>        for."  The couple will forgo a vacation for the next two years
>>        and make other sacrifices to pay for their donation, he said."
>>
>>    So, what is your equality worth to you? What is your equality
>>    worth to your friends and family? How much will you sacrifice for
>>    your own freedom?
>>
>>    We are running out of time.  We need your support now.  We need
>>    the support of your friends and family now.  *_DONATE NOW_!*
>>
>>  <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=apIFKWNEKeIML7K&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F>*FORWARD
>>    THIS EMAIL TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS!*
>>
>>  <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=diJLK5OQIhLTJhJ&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F>
>>
>>    In solidarity,
>>
>>    *
>>    Geoff Kors
>>    *Executive Director
>>    Equality California
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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