| There are 72 hours left to determine whether California will take a massive step backward on human rights and allow the far right to dictate policy here - or whether we can rally voters to make a stand for equality. Polls don't vote - it's time for us to go all out on GOTV to defeat Prop 8.
This is especially important given how motivated our opponents are. They are raising money hand over fist and have thousands of fervent followers planning to get out the vote on Monday and Tuesday. We know their GOTV operation is exceptional.
Your job now is to volunteer to defeat Prop 8. Our goal is to reach 1000 netroots volunteers for No on Prop 8 GOTV. Have you signed up yet? You need to take action, NOW, to make sure that our supporters get to the polls.
As I write this Yes on 8 supporters are gathering at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego for "The Call." See their crazy video - this is what is going to be unleashed on California over the next 72 hours. Are you going to help us fight back?
"The Call" organizers are billing this as "a confrontation between light and darkness will happen this November. To the victor goes the soul of the nation." Some of their featured speakers - a who's who of the theocratic right:
Lou Engel, founder of The Call: "The powers of darkness shall not prevail - this is a call for war. California is the Armageddon of the cultural wars of today."
James Dobson, Focus on the Family (he has donated over $550,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign): "Tolerance and its first cousin, diversity, 'are almost always buzzwords for homosexual advocacy.'"
James Garlow, Skyline Church: Garlow said of gays: "Homosexuals are not monogamous. ... They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the earth."
Tony Perkins, Family Research Council: Tony Perkins says humanity will not survive if Prop 8 loses: "It's more important than the presidential election.... We've picked bad presidents before, and we've survived as a nation. But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage."
These are the people who will be the new power brokers in California politics if Prop 8 passes. They will be emboldened to unleash the full brunt of their far right agenda on California and ALL of us are going to be its targets.
So let's make sure they don't get that chance, and that Prop 8 is defeated. Sign up to defeat Prop 8 now! |
