You Can't Have 'em Both: Homes for Straight People or Rights for Gays

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I will be phone banking tonight from 6 to 9PM. The location is 720 7th Ave (7th and Cherry).

You all should join me.

passionate_jus on October 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Let's see... I bet it helps elderly and homosexual couples that are losing their homes.

Oh right, they're not people.

Cracker Jack on October 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM

This infuriated me this morning. I have written letters, gone to rallies. What else can we do?

Adie on October 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM

jesus h. tapdancing christ. i heard this on KING FM today. a classical music station, of all places. i am firing off an email to the station manager to let him/her know i will be looking elsewhere for classical music broadcasts.

scary tyler moore on October 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM

"Gay marriage won't pay off my three mortgages, so we should reject it."

Damn. That is a hell of a non sequitur. I mean, gay marriage also won't cure cancer, so we should reject it, right? But at the same time, keeping these bigots in their homes ALSO won't cure cancer! Clearly we must do nothing at all!

Fucking utopia fallacy. Ugh.

balderdash on October 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM

@3 What else can you do?
1) Volunteer with the Approve 71 Campaign.
2)Contribute money so they can afford to retaliate nonsense like this.
3)Tell your friends to vote Approve 71 -- and hound the until they do.
http://www.approve71.org

Simply Me on October 12, 2009 at 12:26 PM

Just remember, the more they can confuse voters, the higher the No vote on any initiative or referendum.

Personally ask all your friends, colleagues and relatives in this state to vote. Tell them why.

Will in Seattle on October 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM

God tactic - run against the fools in Olympia - sorta of anti gay, but, not really.

Bet it is based on good polling.

Wonder why our side is not called --- Approve Ref: 71--- all the families stuff is feel good clutter in a message.

Women support our side - so this is a good target stheme for suburban women.

Three weeks, Get out the Seattle Vote.

on October 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM

So if you reject R-71, will you receive assistance on your defaulted mortgage? Is this why we need to conceal the signatures from the referendum, to protect the credit ratings of the signers?

Very true, gay marriage will not pay your defaulted mortgage. Gay porn on the other hand...

Reg on October 12, 2009 at 12:42 PM

@9 - no, you'll be drafted, shipped to Iraq, and then when they find out you're gay, they'll deny your same sex husband any survivor benefits under DADT. So your same sex house will be sold off.

... oh, you weren't serious?

Will in Seattle on October 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM

So, they DO want schools to be properly funded. Are they going to approve taxes for that purpose?

jimmy on October 12, 2009 at 1:12 PM

@4,

I guess you don't listen to KING FM much. ALL their political ads are right wing.

keshmeshi on October 12, 2009 at 1:21 PM

These bigots really have to stop grasping at straws. It aggravates my allergies.

T on October 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM

They've hit rock bottom and are starting to dig.

Urgutha Forka on October 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM

Truly asinine. I don't know how you can have a discourse with someone who argues in such bad faith. I will hector my friends into phone banking this week.

Another Andrew on October 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM

Propaganda doesn't have to be logical to be effective. The reason this ad is effective is that it provides a "cover story" reason for voting no on Ref 71. A certain number of "no" voters don't want to admit it's homophobia motivating them to vote no, so they can tell themselves: "with the economy so bad, it's wrong for government to focus on a frivolity like gay civil rights."

Cucuchi on October 12, 2009 at 5:50 PM

There is phone banking next Monday-Wednesday at the ACLU's downtown office at 2nd and Cherry. You can get in tough with them through Gabriela Quintana, at gquintana@aclu-wa.org.

What is the Approve R-71 ad campaign looking like? How can we abate the disinformation the Reject campaign is spreading?

repressedgenius on October 12, 2009 at 7:02 PM

I couldn't bear to eat lunch today, because people were losing their homes.

Christampa on October 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM

I listen to KING fm every day and I'm a little upset I just heard this commercial on their airwaves.

Annag on October 13, 2009 at 7:17 AM

The whole thing strikes me as a logical fallacy. Incredible.

Terry Nguyen on October 14, 2009 at 11:18 AM

I have been emailing and Warm 106.9 said they've pulled the ad. Yay!

on October 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM

It makes perfectly good sense to use obviously stupid advertisements to get out the Jeebus vote, since Christians are preselected for willingness to believe in the absence of a logical basis for their belief.

History teaches us that the more obviously stupid a set of religious beliefs the greater the size of the army sent to, um, liberate the heathens.

The real question is are these ads stupid enough for Christianity to be victorious over reason?

on October 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM

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