No on 8 Donations Near $1 Million a Day, Money Needs to Keep Coming
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Ellen DeGeneres has stepped up her participation in the No on Prop. 8 campaign by recording a TV ad asking voters to oppose the proposed antigay constitutional amendment.
Patrick Guerriero, campaign director for No on 8, made that announcement during a phone conference with LGBT press on Tuesday.
"She's filmed an ad that could be used in ways that we'll determine over the next day or so. Certainly you'll see it on the Web and virally, and potentially on TV," said Guerriero, who read a transcript that he said is close to the finished product.
"Hi, I'm Ellen DeGeneres," Guerriero quoted from the transcript. "I got to do something this year I never thought I'd ever be able to do. I got married. It was the happiest day of my life. There are people out there raising millions of dollars to try to take that right away from me. You've seen their ads on TV. They're twisting the truth, and they're trying to scare you. I believe in fairness. I believe in compassion. I believe in equality for all people Proposition 8 does not. Please, please vote no on Prop 8."
I've been seeing the commercials to vote for this prop. a lot lately and I get so angry every time.
"Mommy, mommy. Today in school I learned that boys can marry boys and that I can marry a girl."
"Without prop 8, gay marriage will be taught in schools and parents will have NO LEGAL ACTION to speak against it."
Give me a break! Do they really, truly, honestly believe that just because kids know that gay marriage is legal that they're all of a sudden going to become gay and go marry someone of their own gender?? Idiots.
I wish I could donate but I'm saving up for my FFS right now. Otherwise I'd donate in a heartbeat.