Signature Drive Begins Against Prop. 8

By Neal Broverman

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Marriage equality activists in California are now beginning to gather signatures to overturn Proposition 8 in 2010.

The advocacy group Love Honor Cherish launched SignForEquality.com recently in an effort to gather 1 million signatures by April 12 — 150 days from Thursday. John Henning of SignForEquality.com said in a statement that social networking media will be an integral part of gathering the signatures to force the issue back on the ballot.

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Name: Bryan
Date posted: 11/17/2009 4:20:10 PM
Hometown: San Francisco

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Chung: Can you please get lost already? All you ever do here is bitch and whine about what activists are doing. Here you say we should rather be working to repeal DOMA, and then on a DOMA related article you'll whine that gays are being too aggressive with our attempts to repeal DOMA. The real problem in "the movement" are passive people like you. Now don't you have a member of the GOP to stroke off?
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Name: dieter
Date posted: 11/17/2009 4:06:00 AM
Hometown: sacramento

Comment:
HI everyone! I am a team leader for signforequality in the sacramento area. Please go there "signforequality" and join my team. Under search teams ..simply type in zipcode 95662, or type in Dieter Michaels. let's get this done! Thanks alot!
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Name: Rob
Date posted: 11/16/2009 8:30:37 PM
Hometown: Hayward

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@Chung. Just because the prop 8 case is getting a high amount of publicity doesn't mean there isn't an effort to overturn DOMA. There is a case against DOMA in the federal court system being filed by Mass. Other than that, there isn't really much to be done on that front. Any repeal needs to go through Congress, and a repeal bill has already been drafted and has several co-sponsors.
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Name: Chung Fang
Date posted: 11/16/2009 7:41:37 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles

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The whole gay community is making the same mistake again. Instead of repealing prop 8, why not spend the energy on repealing DOMA, that is way more important than the repeal of Prop 8. If prop 8 was repealed, so what? Yes, the gay community will have made a point, but it is not all about point making, it is about securing equal and federal rights and benefits for gay people. I think the gay community has forgotten about it. It is just a political suicide to keep wanting gay marriage right away. We have to have bigger picture, and not just short term state drive satisfaction.
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Name: dieter
Date posted: 11/16/2009 6:38:06 PM
Hometown: sacramento

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Kevin, while the federal case will be heard starting in January, it will likely take months if not longer for a decision to be handed down, and even then No matter what the decision... an appeal will be filed by the losing side. This could take years.
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Name: Rob
Date posted: 11/16/2009 5:48:12 PM
Hometown: Hayward, CA

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Well I'm not a legal analyst or anything, but I'm guessing that if the federal court rules that prop 8 is unconstitutional, the case will be immediately appealed and an injunction will be issued by the 9th circuit court of appeals. I doubt any marriages would be able to take place.
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Name: Kevin
Date posted: 11/16/2009 5:40:28 PM
Hometown: Ft. Myers

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Does anyone know what would happen if the federal court rules in our favor in January? Would it then go to the SC? Would Prop 8 be suspended pending further trial? I don't know the specifics on how this would work.
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Name: Mark
Date posted: 11/16/2009 5:36:21 PM
Hometown: Tesuque

Comment:
Fighting dirty is all the so-called christians understand and yes, I used the lower case 'c' on purpose. There was an article, here on Advocate a few months ago, linking NOM to the KKK. Why hasn't anyone picked up on this and run with it?
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Name: Kevin
Date posted: 11/16/2009 5:28:16 PM
Hometown: Ft. Myers

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This campaign better end up being dirty. Enough of this "we're just like you" crap. We need to start making real attack ads on these NOM people. Start digging up the dirt on Maggie and Co. If all else fails, just make up random shit about them and put it in the ads anyway. It's what they did to us. It's not like the general public will actually do their research anyway.
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Name: Kevin
Date posted: 11/16/2009 5:25:34 PM
Hometown: Ft. Myers

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It'll be interesting to see what the federal court has to say on this in January.

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