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Title: CA's Prop 8 is Not About Gays or Marriage?
Post by: Natasha on September 17, 2008, 05:16:26 PM
CA's Prop 8 is Not About Gays or Marriage?

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/cas_prop_8_is_not_about_gays_or_marriage.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/cas_prop_8_is_not_about_gays_or_marriage.php)
9/17/2008

Silly me, I thought California's proposition 8, the initiative about gay marriage equality, was about gay marriage. But based on the outreach posters and materials from the No on 8 forces, the pro-gay-marriage folks, which omits the words "gay" and "marriage" altogether, I'd say the No on 8 leaders have not only de-gayed the the proposition, they've also divorced it from anything to do with marriage.
Title: Re: CA's Prop 8 is Not About Gays or Marriage?
Post by: tekla on September 17, 2008, 05:20:21 PM
I think its smart.  "Gay" is too loaded a word, but 'equity' is something most people are in favor of.  The law does not create gay or straight, but it does create non-equity.