Civil Rights

[asterroc]

A nice "doctored" video about civil rights. California is facing a ballot question that would make gay marriage illegal, Question 8. The Yes on 8 people put out a video w/ people talking about what's wrong w/ gay marriage, yadda yadda. And then someone took that video and replaced every mention of "same-sex" with "interracial," and "gay" with "black," even re-recording the vocal track.

I am multi-racial, and I approve.

Comments

[kelsin.livejournal.com]

Found it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3kxDFgmu8

Pretty freaking scary. I can't believe these people can even appear in this video, I would be totally ashamed.

OMG you mean if we allows gays to marry a photograph might have to photograph a gay marriage!? THE HORROR.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

If the Boy Scouts - who are publically funded - are allowed to kick out gays, I'm pretty sure an entirely private for-profit phtographer can do what they want.

You like the part about "Massachusetts Catholic churches were forced to stop their adoption agencies"? Um, no, they DECIDED to stop them b/c they were bigots and weren't willing to give children to all loving families.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Nope. The Boy Scouts are a private organization. They can allow in whoever they want (A lot of time the strings you imagine to be attached to receiving federal grants aren't there). The photographer runs a business. She's forced by anti-discrimination laws to photograph gay weddings. I believe the analogy is to a restaurant not serving blacks.

What's troubling to me was the CHURCH that was required to allow civil union ceremonies on land it owned and used for religious weddings. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91486340 That story really bothers me.