{"id":834,"date":"2009-02-24T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T03:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-02-24T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T06:05:03","slug":"i-voted-yes-on-prop-8-and-am-not-ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"I VOTED YES on PROP 8 and I am NOT ASHAMED!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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*An article from www.protectmarriage.com<\/a> *<\/p>\n

February 24, 2009<\/p>\n

This just in from Hollywood:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren\u2019s eyes if they continue that way of support. We\u2019ve got to have equal rights.\u201d
\nSean Penn, accepting the Oscar for Best Actor
\nFebruary 22, 2009<\/p>\n

This is the message that was communicated throughout the world on Sunday night during the Academy Award show by Hollywood liberals, including their \u201cbest actor\u201d Sean Penn.<\/p>\n

In fact, viewers weren\u2019t two categories into the awards show when a gay screen writer bashed the Mormon Church, as much as said that supporters of Prop 8 are hateful bigots and promised that, soon, gays would have the right to marry. He even promised that the Obama Administration would make sure gays could marry \u201cfederally.\u201d That brought a big round of applause.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps not surprising that Hollywood liberals would use their \u201cawards\u201d show to campaign in favor of gay marriage. After all, many of these same liberals donated or raised millions of dollars to attempt to defeat Proposition 8.<\/p>\n

What is perhaps surprising is their brazen attempt to influence public opinion against traditional marriage by manipulating people into thinking that this is a \u201chuman rights\u201d issue, or a \u201ccivil rights\u201d issue, or even an \u201cequal rights\u201d issue. What they don\u2019t tell people is that gay couples in domestic partnerships in California already have equal rights! Gay domestic partners in California enjoy the same legal rights as married spouses.<\/p>\n

Liberal Hollywood activists like Sean Penn know a thing or two about reaching audiences. They make millions \u2013 tens of millions \u2013 learning how to connect with an audience. One audience they no doubt hoped to influence on Sunday night was the California Supreme Court, which is hearing challenges to invalidate Prop 8 in just ten days. Another audience probably watched the show from the upstairs of the White House in Washington. Still another audience is made up of voters here in California, enough of the 7 million of whom they hope to shame into repudiating their votes cast in favor of traditional marriage the next time the issue is on the ballot. Traditional marriage has served society well, and there are many sound reasons why people support one man, one woman marriage \u2013 including continuing the best institution to give children both a mother and a father. Prop 8 wasn\u2019t an attack on gay couples, it was an affirmation of traditional marriage \u2013 but you didn\u2019t hear that at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

ProtectMarriage.com has made very powerful, legally sound arguments in our briefs filed with the Supreme Court. Our attorneys, including former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, are working hard to prepare to present these arguments directly to the justices on March 5 when the challenges to Prop 8 will be heard. We think that attempts to campaign to get the attention of judges, like we saw from Hollywood the other night, will fall on deaf ears. We are confident that the Court will decide the Prop 8 cases strictly on the law, and we have the law on our side.<\/p>\n

However, we must also be mindful of the incessant effort from Hollywood and gay activists to portray our support of Prop 8 in hateful, negative terms. From the protests that have been orchestrated against Proposition 8, to the \u201couting\u201d of countless donors to our campaign, to the violence and vandalism of our churches, supporters of traditional marriage have been subjected to a carefully orchestrated attempt to erode public support and intimidate our donors and volunteers. It\u2019s time that we fought back, and ProtectMarriage.com intends to do just that. Will you help us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*An article from www.protectmarriage.com * February 24, 2009 This just in from Hollywood: \u201cI think it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren\u2019s eyes if they continue that way of support. We\u2019ve got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}