Prop 8 TV ads

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 9/29/08 at 5:36pm

I've seen both the No on 8 and Yes on 8 ads. The No on 8 is a very smart ad, that personalizes homosexuals. It makes us a member of the family, your friends, neighbors, etc. Yes on 8 is a typical political ad that takes words out of context.

I can't find the Yes on 8 ad on youtube, but I found the No on 8.
No on 8

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 9/29/08 at 6:30pm

I've always felt the "No" campaign needs to stay away from the gay thing altogether and focus on the disgusting notion of actually writing discrimination into the Constitution. I would think a lot people would be against that, fundamentally, regardless of the specific issue. If this remains a "gay" issue, it's doomed.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 10:27pm

Has anyone seen the Yes on 8 ads on Lifetime? I don't understand why a station with such a large gay audience and programing with out celebrities like Carson Kressley is running such ads. Even if they have members of the company who don't support gay marriage you'd think they'd be more interested in not alienating a core audience in the long term.
Updated On: 10/1/08 at 10:27 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/2/08 at 2:36am

cats, it's called business...they'll take anyones money.

There is a marked difference in the ads...the yes ad is SO damn negative, while the no ad is not.

What so many people forget is that for all the non-married heterosexual couple a yes vote hurts them too...

but mothers is right, it's a matter of writing discrimination into a state constitution, and that is against the law.....this should prove interesting

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 10/2/08 at 11:08am

The other thing I find interesting is that the no campain's slogan is "Equality for All," while yes campaign's slogan is "Protect Marriage."

Another missed opportunity by the no camp. Prop 8 isn't about CREATING marriage "equality for all." It's about PROTECTING and preserving marriage rights that are ALREADY LEGAL in the eyes of the law. I would love to have seen the no's campaign spin this to "Protect Marriage for ALL." At the very least, it would've beat the yes side at their own game, and prevented THEM from hawling out their "protect marriage" rhetoric again.

Then again, I recently performed in a benefit show for "No on Prop 8," which was directly tied to the official campaign and website...and nowhere, at any point, was our event even mentioned or promoted by them -- even though they were the recipients of the thousands of dollars we raised for the cause. Of course, we only sold about 70% of our tickets.

Shameful.

Updated On: 10/2/08 at 11:08 AM

[Q]

Posted: 10/2/08 at 11:09am

"it's called business...they'll take anyones money."

Like Mormon ads on BWW . . .

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 10/2/08 at 11:11am

Oh. Snap.

[Q]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 1:17am

I was just sayin' . . .

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 1:40am

My favorite Vote No on 8 video :D

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 1:41am

This one is good, too.

[RadiGal2]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 1:56am

We have that amendment on our ballot again this year, it's truly annoying since apparently none of these folks have read our state constitution. Ever since Arizona became a state in 1912 marriage has been defined in our constitution as between 'one man and one woman'. Although, my hunch is that back in the day it had more to do with the Mormons' next door in Utah than GLBT couples. Ironically, it is the Mormons raising all the darn money to pass this thing. The Prophet sent out a letter to all the Mormon churches on a Sunday morning about 2 weeks back to win this measure it and by the end of the day they had raised in excess of 400K --according to the paper today they have raised 6.9 million dollars. We have not scraped together $97,000 in the 3 months since we knew it was on the ballot. Again.

Anyway, we did manage to beat it back once in 2006, and we are basically running the campaign on that notion...'trust the voters --again'. I doubt it will work -- last time the measure applied to all domestic partnerships. That, and they have many millions of dollars.We will lose of course in a land slide, but we are fighting the good fight anyway -- I even talked my parents out of voting for it! Yay!

The real tragedy is that we can no longer buy Cold Stone ice cream -- they are the single largest corporate contributor to the measure here.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/10/02/20081002marriagemoney1003-ON.html

Updated On: 10/3/08 at 01:56 AM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 4:22pm

exactly Q!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 4:25pm

wow, I hadn't seen those two...love em.