$1.5 Milln Spent On Anti-Gay Marriage Ad - CBS News

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• HERAGE LNCH $1M MPAIGN TO N ADS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BILL DURG NFL, LLEGE FOOTBALL GAM
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• $1.5 MILLN SPENT ON ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD
• VIDEO: THE 5 MOST COMILLY BAD ANTI-GAY ADS, EVER

HERAGE LNCH $1M MPAIGN TO N ADS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BILL DURG NFL, LLEGE FOOTBALL GAM

For gay folks, then, is all the more stgg an irony that the one place where same-sex upl are visible is the advertisg war over Proposn 8. The need to walk that tightrope helps expla why the actual subjects of next month’s iative, gay upl, were “ned” by the “No on 8” mpaign’s ads. “Our gay dghter and thoands of our fellow Californians will lose the right to marry, ” says mother Julia Thoron.

A subsequent ad, all text wh voice-over narratn, mentns marriage only once (“Regardls of how you feel about marriage, ’s wrong to treat people differently unr the law”) and never the phrase “gay marriage” or even the word “gay. Asked about the absence of gay upl, a senr “No on 8” official told KPIX-TV San Francis that “om all the knowledge that we have and rearch that we have, [those] are not the bt imag to move people. ” Another ad attacks overweeng judg, mocks San Francis Mayor Gav Newsom for sayg, “It’s gog to happen whether you like or not, ” and go on to claim that gay marriage uld e people to be sued for their beliefs and church to lose their tax exemptn.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

Notice, aga, that gay upl were missg, though for a different reason. Nowadays, swg voters are more leery of anti-gay discrimatn than of same-sex upl.

If homosexuals n get married, look what else might happen! Whatever the tactil nsiratns, the absence of gay upl and gay marriag om California’s gay-marriage bate mak for an oddly hollow discsn.

It leav voters of good nscience to njure their own mds the ads that are not beg aired: Ads that show how gay marriage directly affects the upl and muni that need most. Chief among those expectatns is that spo will do whatever is necsary to re for each other — which is valuable, bee cens data show that almost a third of California’s gay upl have only one wage-earner, and almost a fifth have at least one disabled partner (about the same, by the way, as for straight married upl). By supportg and rercg the re-givg mment, each marriage, gay no ls than straight, creat social pal for the whole muny.

$1.5 MILLN SPENT ON ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD

Brian and Doug don’t have kids, but a fourth of California’s gay upl do, acrdg to cens data.

Or an ad might feature a gay teenager celebratg his parents’ 20th weddg anniversary and dreamg of his own someday.

VIDEO: THE 5 MOST COMILLY BAD ANTI-GAY ADS, EVER

There are untls gay youths for whom the prospect of marriage will be so much more tangible if is embraced by the natn’s largt state. The breakthrough effect of same-sex marriage is not on the mature gay upl who n fally get marriage licens, important though that is; is the effect on generatns of gay kids who will no longer grow up assumg that their love mt separate them om life’s most sential stutn. Keepg marriage available to gay upl California, and givg the blsgs of a popular majory, would be a game-changer for gay culture.

” For the most part, however, you have seen and heard least about those who benef most om gay marriage. "SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FINAL PASSAGE Sen.

"Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse. "You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about. " Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about.