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Title: Bigoted Arizonans exposed: supporters of Amendment 102
Post by: Shana A on November 24, 2008, 09:43:59 AM
Bigoted Arizonans exposed: supporters of Amendment 102 (http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8386)

                  by: Pam Spaulding (http://pamshouseblend.com/userDiary.do?personId=2)                 
             Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 08:30:00 AM EST                                                                                 

                                                           

                             Here they are, published in the Tucson Observer (http://www.tucsonobserver.com/index.php?page=6). I hope that each and every one of these people, some of whom gave $100K to ensure that gay and lesbian couples would be discriminated against in their state, are proud of their names being listed. After all, they were simply "protecting marriage." LGBTs can certainly steer their hard-earned incom away from these believers in mob rule at the ballot box.

Yes on 102 spent more than $8 million to get that initiative passed, one that was carefully crafted to target only gays, since the 2006 measure would have discriminated against any unmarried couples. As Lisa Derrick at FDL's Campaign Silo (http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/11/23/arizona-gets-busy-boycotting-over-equal-marriage-rights/) writes, 102 was