Posted on 10/21/2008 10:32:36 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
(snip) ...about 100 cheering, sign-waving people greeted a "Yes on 8" bus making its only Bay Area stop on a weeklong, statewide tour. Although the rally was in the parking lot of the predominately African-American Foothill Missionary Baptist Church, the crowd was mostly white and Asian/Pacific Islander.
"I'm in the business of saving souls," the Rev. Maurice Scott of Oakland's Great St. John Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church told the crowd. "We sit in different congregations, and we stand in different pews, but the word of God has brought us together today. ... Man shall not lie with mankind as he lies with a woman."
The Rev. Ray Williams of Oakland's St. John Missionary Baptist Association said Proposition 8 supporters "love our sisters and brothers; we don't hate anybody. ... All are precious in God's sight." But civil unions grant same-sex couples enough rights, he said, and marriage should be only between a man and a woman.
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At the "Yes on 8" rally, California Family Council director Ron Prentice thanked the crowd for "being unapologetic about how you feel about marriage in California. ... It's all about children; it's all about the next generation."
"Yes on 8" campaign manager Frank Schubert insisted "this is not about taking rights away from anybody," but rather about standing up for children's rights to have a mother and a father.
After the rally, Dennis McCourt of Union City crossed 16th Avenue to confront several people holding "No on 8" signs. "I love you enough to tell you the truth ... that homosexuality is a sin," he told them. "We will not stand for this evil to be foisted upon our families ... (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at insidebayarea.com ...
Demonstrators in favor of California Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in the state, march on the street following a rally outside the Foothill Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. (D. Ross Cameron/The Oakland Tribune)
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The good looking people support this bill it looks like. Beats any Janet Reno look a likes.
appears to be the usual suspects.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
. . . And then be invalidated by an activist judge.
No chance; this time out it’s an amendment to the State Constitution, so no robed oligarch can touch it.
The judge will invalidate it on the ground that it is vague, or ambiguous, or that the electorate didn’t understand what it was voting for. That’s how they do it here.
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