September 22, 2008

No On 8 Ad Beats Bigots to the Airwaves; Frank Schubert Has Hissy Fit

Backers of California same-sex marriage ban are out-fundraising opponents

The campaigns for and against Proposition 8 have raised a combined $30 million, with donations given in support of the proposed ban on gay marriage running considerably ahead of those to the opposition.

So far, the main group promoting the Constitutional amendment, which would overturn a recent California Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, has raised $17.8 million. The main No-on-8 campaign has raised $12.4 million.

But the anti-Proposition 8 forces have announced high-profile donations in recent days. The entertainment industry is becoming more heavily involved, with director-producer Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, announcing Monday that they were giving $100,000 to the No-on-8 effort. Their donation matched the $100,000 donated by actor Brad Pitt last week.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose 2004 decision to allow gays to marry in his city prompted the Supreme Court review that led to same-sex marriage becoming legal, is traveling to Manhattan on Thursday for a $5,000-per-person fundraiser cohosted by New York Gov. David Paterson.

w00t! Thank you, Mayor Newsom and Governor Paterson!

Foes of Proposition 8 also announced Monday that they have started airing their first television ad, which will be shown in markets across the state from now until election day.

Watch the new ad here. (We saw it broadcast tonight on a San Francisco Bay Area station!)

The weekly cost of a statewide television campaign intended to ensure that typical California viewers would see a spot seven to 10 times is about $3.5 million to $5 million. …

Which is why we’ve got to increase donations to the No On 8 campaign. Donate here!

The anti-Proposition 8 spot could become particularly prominent because it is airing in a week when many new television shows are premiering. It also will air later this week around the time of the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, said campaign strategist Maggie Linden. …

Good, good.

Frank Schubert, managing the Yes-on-8 campaign, called the ad “a blatant appeal to sympathy and emotion.”

Oh, we can’t have any “sympathy and emotion,” can we?

Hey, Frankie, what is all your hysterical liemongering appealing to? Oh, yeah, I remember: fear and disgust.

“I’m not surprised that they’re using a heterosexual couple,” Schubert said. “I don’t think they want to show gay couples. I think they want to make gay marriage as, quote, normal, as possible. They want people to think gay marriage is completely normal, when it was created out of whole cloth by four judges.”

I know what’s “created out of whole cloth” — and it’s easy to locate by the overwhelming stink when you’re downwind of Frank Schubert.

Schubert, you are the most shameless purveyor of baseless lies I’ve seen since Anita Bryant. The only difference between you and Dan White is that White ripped our hearts out in the few seconds it took to pull the trigger five times, while you’re taking your sweet time about it.

How you can sleep at night is beyond me — but I guess bigotry for fun and profit is pretty lucrative for you, isn’t it? This is what you and your partner-in-hate Jeff Flint do for a living: exploit ignorance and bigotry for a nice, fat paycheck.

You’re a sad little man, Frankie. A sad, mean little man who makes his money by hurting others. May your god — if you have one — grant you the forgiveness you don’t deserve.

Have you no decency, Frank Schubert?

Strike that — it’s a silly question.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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