Posted on 10/08/2007 7:59:28 AM PDT by SmithL
Frustrated in efforts to legalize same-sex marriage through legislation or litigation, proponents will launch a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign this week to "open hearts and minds" in Sacramento and other major cities.
The 60-second ads will run in the capital, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs as part of a monthslong campaign to prod families to openly discuss same-sex marriage.
"The long-term goal is to have the majority of Californians support the freedom to marry -- to change the climate here," said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, which is coordinating the campaign.
Benjamin Lopez, spokesman for the Traditional Values Coalition, which opposes same-sex marriage, called the effort "grasping at straws."
"This notion of a redefined marriage goes against the laws of God and against nature," he said.
The same TV spot will run in all five cities, beginning Thursday.
The ad depicts a traditional wedding, with an excited crowd, a flower girl tossing petals and a tuxedoed groom. As the bride walks down the aisle, she is tripped by a spectator and sprawls onto the floor. These words fill the screen:
"What if you couldn't marry the person you loved?"
Supplementing the TV campaign, thousands of volunteers are expected to participate in the multifaceted promotional push -- called "Let California Ring" -- by conducting house parties, knocking on voters' doors, giving speeches or assisting in e-mail or Web activities.
Legislation to permit same-sex marriage sits on the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has vowed to veto it as he did a similar measure two years ago.
Schwarzenegger, in his previous veto message, cited a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2000 to limit marriage to a man and a woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Interesting slogan...Open Hearts Open Minds...If I am not mistaken that is the present slogan for the United Methodist Chruch.
“But the GOP leadership is stuck on stupid.”
You found them? Where have they been? Most believe there is no GOP leadership and no GOP governor. Where were they?
What if you couldn't have sex with multiple random partners in a public venue?
That would only corrupt the word marriage like they did with the once good word gay.
Once again, the greatest weapon against this sickness is Truth -- the awful light of day.
Using the courts of course...
“Same-sex marriage backers go to TV - New ads ask viewers to
‘open hearts and minds’ on the issue.”
They are hoping folks will be so open-minded that their brains fall out
onto the ground.
I hope this is a sign of desperation on their part.
And I PRAY they get much louder and b-tchy with their demands.
That should be a big boost for the Republicans in Nov. 2008.
(Maybe the only boost the Republicans can get)
“Same-sex marriage”
Can’t they just call it HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, and cut out the crap with “same sex”? If they’re homosexuals and damn-well proud of it, then call it what it is: HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE!
They really mean for the homo-marriage supporters for us to turn off our hearts & souls and open our backsides up to them and as well as the children of this nation so the older gays / trannies /lesbo’s / beasties will have open season on the youth for recruitment to their lifestyles?
Mel Martinez was about to fly to California but he found out these homosexuals were not asking for immigration AMNESTY.
It wasn't until Operation Rescue that folks' eyes were opened to who the pro-lifers really were. Suddenly, on the TV news, people began seeing young women and old women along with the men, being arrested for peacefully picketing abortion clinics, or staging sit-downs reminiscent of the civil rights era. The images of pro-lifers on the news didn't square with those they'd been fed by the entertainment industry for the previous 10 years, and it made some folks stop and think about the issue for the first time. From that time, to the present, you can see the changes in the attitudes among those polled about abortion.
The issue of homosexual 'marriage' will be different in that there is already a lot of information out in the public about it, and a structure already built up to oppose it. Folks won't be blindsided by it as they were by the abortion issue. That is, everyone except we here in MA who had it forced on us by the liberals on the Supreme Judicial Court, and were denied our chance to vote on the issue by the Democrat controlled state legislature.
One of the many reasons I left the Methodist Church 6 years ago. It was nothing more than liberal social indoctrination of my children.
My heart and mind is pleanty open.... that doesn’t however lead me to conclude that 2 people engaging in hedonistic narccissm constitutes a marriage.
They are free to do what they will, but that will never ever be a marriage.
Only people so wrapped up in themselves could remotely believe and dillude themselves into thinking marriage is simply about sexual acts.
your question would be better posed to a faggot or fag supporter such as the author or producer of the commercial described in the article above.
That's precisely WHY I don't use it in their context. If I'm talking about sexual activity between persons of the same gender, I use the word homosexuality, which is what it is. There's nothing 'gay' about it.
however the MSM selectivly reports.
Just look at the miller beer sponsorship of the sex fair in sanfrancisco. ALL the media outlets sanitized the story, not even FNC covered the truth. There was no statement that the folsm fair was about homosexual sex or visuals to show EXACTLY what miller beer was sponsoring.
(now that all the programs were printed and distributed, miller “pulls” the logo)
Look how CNN with GLEE was showing the san francisco weddings, they thought the public would be thrilled but the reality soon hit the public was being repulsed. CNN has not shown those images since.
It is now going to be about selective OMMISSION.
Open my what?
I was there when we (Normal-Americans) were all asked to "open our hearts and minds" to a little tolerance.
Ask me how, from normals' viewpoint, how that worked out...
Fat chance!
Yeah, it’s funny that this ad shows a real marriage (a man and a woman) with the bride being humiliated. If homosexuality is so attractive, why don’t they show a homo “marriage” with an effeminate male falling flat on his face?
Orwellian diversionary tactics, IMO.
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