October 23rd 2008—Proposition Spin Doctors
After spending the morning emailing, faxing and on the phone, I made the drive from Los Angeles to Oakland.
On the way to Oakland I was listening to public radio. There was a woman from Oakland talking about Proposition 8 which is on the ballot and proposes to overturn the California Supreme Court Ruling that found that discrimination based on sexual orientation was unconstitutional. Ms. Anderson was married right after the recent legislation passed allowing for same sex unions. Her wedding was officiated by Mayor Ron Dellums and witnessed by Congresswoman Barbara Lee. She spoke about how she and her partner of many years had lived through the civil rights era she, as an African American woman, had to fight just to have her very humanity acknowledged so that she can achieve equal rights. Now, regarding Proposition 8, she is fighting another battle to be able to be afforded the same rights in being in a loving committed relationship with a same sex partner as persons in heterosexual relationships.
I also heard on the radio and saw on TV several times a commercial where “a Massachusetts couple” talked about how their child had been taught about same sex marriages. On the TV commercial, they show the couple holding a book that says, “King and King” and depicts two men on the front cover. They couples testimony ends with them saying in outrage and lamentation, “Our son is in second grade!!” This is how they are spinning Proposition 8. In the commercials they are saying that Proposition 8 is about teaching children about “homosexuality” in schools.
Good thing is that contrary to the situation in Arizona with well financed anti-same sex marriage as well as amply financed campaigns to perpetuate predatory lending, I learned that California has a well financed opposition to those who want to ban equal rights for same sex couples. Each side of the argument has raised $60 million dollars.
Otherwise, it was a beautiful drive and I arrived in Oakland safely.
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