I apologize profusely, gentle readers, that I have not had time to complete the other four essays I have planned, essays that will elaborate and expand on the arguments we most often hear in favor of this life-and-death Proposition. For one thing, I’ve been busy nearly 24/7 – you may have seen me – waving my “Yes on 8” sign on street corners throughout the county, sometimes with my new friends, sometimes all by my lonesome. On top of that I am having to post this on a public library computer, having sold my car and laptop when Frank Schubert demanded I make a “sacrificial offering” to save the institution of marriage.
Fortunately, I am able now to post a few videos which I think make the case for Proposition 8 even more convincingly than I ever could. Most strikingly, here is “The Call.” I can’t even explain what it means myself, but man did it make my blood pump for the thrill of abridging civil liberties – especially hearing the voice of that hot, husky narrator!
The next remarkable video successfully argues for something that hadn’t even occurred to Phobius: the scientific connection between Californians’ tolerance for same-sex marriage and the incidence of wildfires in the state:
This should tug at your heartstrings: These two very precocious seven-year olds in this video fully understand the repugnance of homosexual “acts of love,” and the moral dangers to our society if we give our imprimatur to that sort of behavior. Just listen to the little cherubim sing:
Where would the struggle to save the sacred jewel of heterosexual marriage be without our weird brothers in the Mormon Church? Last I checked, 40% of the money backing the initiative came from Salt Lake City millionaires, and regular salt-of-the-earth Mormons with nothing left but their bikes and backpacks after being coerced to make the sort of “sacrifical offerings” I did. Here is one of their rallying videos:
And finally let’s not forget our heroic local legislators, like Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, bold and politically incorrect enough to proclaim to a hedonistic college crowd that we should not re-define marriage “in order to make a small number of people feel comfortable about themselves.” A small number of people! And here I had fallen for the liberal media myth that about 10% of us are born gay. Hey – even if that’s true, it’s a lot less than 90%, eh? Thank you, Dana Rohrabacher, for a sharp dose of the courageous truth.
If you are not convinced by these five videos, then there’s probably not a lot more Phobius can say to you. But I know, while marriage lies on her deathbed in “Code Blue” (to use Frank Schubert’s phrase), wheezing, trembling, hacking up blood, incontinent, and not recognizing its loved ones, that I will not be able to look into my grandchildren’s eyes (if I ever have children) and tell them I did not pull out every last stop for Proposition 8. So I will attempt to get these four essays out of draft form by Tuesday:
- Extrapolating on the DeVore Principle (the inevitability of polygamy, bestiality, incest and necrophilia)
- Yes, Civil Rights SHOULD Be Decided By a Majority Vote!
- A Tragic Case Study: A Church, and Beloved Religious Leader, Driven to Poverty and Drink By Legalized Gay Marriage
- Surprise: “Family Defense Council” Comes Out in Support of Prop. 8!
Can I get my absentee ballot back? I wanna change my vote.
Your precocious 7 year-olds are really annoying – they can’t even sing for goddess sake – you think this helps your pathetic cause? geez. all the $ spent on this thing from both sides when it was all done to get people to get out and vote – no matter what happens the supreme court of ca isn’t done, so the outcome really won’t matter unless it’s the no vote that wins. it’ll leave the yes vote with no more argument to use about the 2000 vote and voice of the people. really, people, get a a clue.
What would Jesus say? What would Jesus really say?? Think upon this, Christians, and pray about it. Be true to your heart and what the Holy Spirit tells you.
The one with the two little kids is just about the most repugnant thing I’ve ever seen. It didn’t tug at my heartstrings…it made my lunch come up.
LOL, anon. That Phobius is one sick dude.
Here’s a good article Schwarzenegger Centrist Republican turned me on to from yesterday’s California Progress Report:
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/10/thou_shalt_not.html
“Thou Shalt Not Lie – Mormons Result to Pinocchio Politics”
by Darin Barry
Karl Rove has greatly influenced the Elders and the living Prophets over at Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah, where the intense, out-of-state effort to keep California voters confused and misinformed on proposition 8 is a high priority. Mormons have been mobilized to give an estimated 77% percent of their donations to support the proposed gay marriage ban in California. So far, according to the figures from Californians’ Against Hate, the Mormons have bankrolled more than seventeen million dollars to support proposition 8.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the second-highest Mormon church governing body, explained that their plan to pass the ballot initiative included other tactics like asking each California congregation to commit 30 volunteers to donate their time to prop 8 and for young Mormons to use social networking sites on the internet such as MySpace and Facebook to spread a pro prop 8 message.
The initial and obvious reaction to this staggering amount of Mormon money and volunteer efforts coordinated to deny a minority their freedoms and civil rights usually evokes shock and disgust. To some though, the Mormon efforts might still appear as just good old fashioned, honest Christ-like electioneering. However, the Mormon attack on California citizens is not honest or admirable. The Mormon campaign is quite egregious and darkly reminiscent of swift boat and Rovian stratagem which utilizes the dissemination of misinformation and outright lies to win.
The cheat-to-win actions of the Mormon Church are never better demonstrated than by their key argument and its supporting document in favor of prop 8; a memo titled The Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails. This memo, which has become the basis for their platform for yes on prop 8, was written “anonymously” which conveniently removes accountability for truth and accuracy. This should, to the thinking public, greatly detract from the memos’ credibility, but to the Mormons it is a license to instill fear in California voters and they are running with it. They have been responsible for the memo’s proliferation on the internet, pro-prop 8 web sites, viral e-mails, and the unrelenting perpetuation of its deceit via phone calling.
If Californians receive a pro prop 8 phone call, it’s most likely from a Mormon hellbent on deceiving them with information contained in this easily disproven memo. Line by line, the fear installing memo has been disproven by very credible, notable scholars and attorneys, most recently from a very surprising source.
Morris Thurston, a highly respected Mormon scholar and Orange County attorney who graduated from BYU and Harvard School of Law has risked excommunication from the Mormon Church by speaking out against prop 8. He has authored his own memo and distributed it widely for voter examination. The memo line by line discredits the talking points contained in the anonymous, Six Consequences of Failure of Prop 8 as blatantly untrue according to California Law. The memo and the original can be found in its entirety at http://connellodonovan.com/thurston_response.pdf and http://www.MormonsforMarriage.com.
The California Attorney and author, Thurston, has confirmed what many informed California voters already know: Prop 8 has NOTHING to do with education and children are not going to be brainwashed into being homosexual by their teachers. The Mormon scare tactic is absurd.
The memo’s first and key argument threatens that Children in public schools will have to be taught that same-sex marriage is just as good as traditional marriage. Then the memo goes on to “scare” people into believing that prop 8’s passage is necessary to overturn an already existing California Education Code (# 51890), a mandate that is seriously misinterpreted by the anonymous author and subsequently the Mormon zealots who would have us believe that the code currently is a requirement for teachers to instruct students that marriage is between two consenting adults regardless of gender. Thurston’s response:
“This is untrue. California Education Code 51890 provides that “pupils will receive instruction to aid them in making decisions in matters of personal, family, and community health.” The focus is on health. The statute provides for community participation, including lectures by practicing professional health and safety personnel from the community. Things that are to be taught include, for example, drug use and misuse, nutrition, exercise, diseases and disorders, environmental health and safety, as well as “family health and child development, including the legal and financial aspects and responsibilities of marriage and parenthood.”
“Another section of the Education Code (51933) deals with comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention. It provides that instruction shall be age appropriate and medically accurate, shall teach “respect for marriage and committed relationships,” and shall encourage a pupil to communicate with his or her parents about human sexuality.
“Therefore, no provision of the Education Code requires any teacher to teach that same-sex marriage is “just as good” as traditional marriage. Teachers are to teach respect for marriage and committed relationships, and Proposition 8 will not change this law.”
Morris Thurston and California attorneys also refute every talking point in the memo including that Churches will lose their tax exempt status if they refuse to marry same sex couples as again, untrue.
Perhaps the Mormons should be concerned about losing their tax exempt status, because clearly they are engaging in electioneering albeit slyly and using lots of loopholes to do so.
And if all this Pinocchio politics being perpetrated on California voters by Mormons wasn’t enough, now they are engaging in defacto black mail. Just recently Mormon Church member Mark Jansson, admitted to sending out certified letters to businesses that donated to the no on 8 campaigns demanding that the businesses match their donation amounts to the yes on 8 campaign or “risk” being outed as being pro-gay. This is certainly not Christ-like behavior and it seems more likely that the Mormons are taking cues from films like the Reservoir Dogs and the Godfather.
So why this from the Mormons, the Church of Latter Day Saints? Probably, as many speculate that the underlying motivation may well be to gain “respect” among other religious groups who view the Mormons as cult-like, heretical or not Christian at all. I for one just find their actions unbelievably unconscionable and can clearly see how they contradict the real Christian message. As one Mormon put it; “relying on deceptive arguments is not only contrary to gospel principles, but ultimately works against the very mission of the Church.”- Morris Thurston.
I sit here reading your post intrigued with the unintended yet deliberate absurdity of these lunatics. The “fires from God” piece was a real crack-up. Strike fire in the forrests and tract homes — that’ll show ’em.
Perhaps, with proper delving into history, research will prove that marriage is a contractual union that allows individuals basic priveledges, benefits and rights of such partnership.
I can’t wait for the overwhelming defeat of h8. The religious wrong nincompoops need to be put in their place and the overwhelming “no on 8” votes are going to show them we are not going to take it anymore.
It is wrong to deny equal rights. It is unconstitutional.
Mary-I have a bridge for sale
Vote YES on PROP 8
Phobius
You forgot your sarcasm “on/off” quote marks. But that’s okay, I think it was very clear.
Vern,
Great post. I’ll have to discuss this with my gay cousin who married a straight mormon this Thanksgiving. Oh the disfunction!
OCGator,
I ain’t buyin’ it. Maybe you should look into foreclosure. Not too many people are buying (it) these days.
Mary, right on! Don’t listen to OCGator. How do you think he came into possession of that bridge he wants to sell you? I’m sure you wont make that same mistake being an intelligent, thinking, logical, rational commenter here.
Sorry Gator keep searching to find somone as gullible as you are. Mary is not the one.
OK, I just figured out – there’s Mary and there’s mary. Capitalized and not. I can see you have different e-mail addresses, but it’s confusing, especially to our readers.
Mary is the Republican who spouts off GOP talking points and is voting to take away the right of same-sex couples to wed. And mary is the sensible humanist with a sense of humor. Got it. Now, don’t go changing your capitalizations on us, ladies!