Film at 11: Equal Time

[athelind]

It infuriates me that, while almost every prime-time show we watch regularly has at least one ad supporting the reprehensible Proposition 8, I have yet to see a single ad opposing it. What happened to "equal time"?

Or is this a situation where those foul "pro" ads work just as well to stoke up the fury of any thinking person against this?

From the bile these people spew, you'd think that they believe that if their proposition to Eliminate Rights* doesn't pass, same-sex marriage will become mandatory for everyone.

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*Bless you, Jerry Brown, for renaming this Act to accurately describe what it means.

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Comments

[returntonull.livejournal.com]

That is the most unfortunate name for a proposition ever. How they expect to pass anything with the words 'eliminates rights' in it is a mystery.

[toob.livejournal.com]

There was a lawsuit over that. They lost.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

What toob said. They wanted to call it the "Defense of Marriage" act or some such, but Jerry Brown, currently California's Attorney General, brought it before the state Supreme Court and moved that the title describe the contents.

Not that anyone pays attention to the NAMES of these bills, really: everyone just calls it "Proposition 8".