Non stop prop 8 ads on the day before election day left an uncomfortable groove in my psyche

On the day before the election..the tv was on most of the day as I sat at my computer... during every single break the prop 8 ad ran..mostly the same ad...it was horrible on that day..I remember thinking that I had never experienced such a relentless campaign and how much money it must have cost..

4 months later....that memory, which I would like to forget...is still burned in there..driving in tully fog in the central valley for 5 hours, burned a stress pattern into my eyes that lasted for years...i can still squish my face to that very same place of physical remembrance ....same thing for the first televised blow by blow gulf war..and now this one..yep i could have turned the tv off...but i didnt...i thought it would be something that would be forgotten quickly..its not...thats a problem...

Good.

There was so much misinformation put out about Prop 8, most people didn't know if they were for it or against it. I'll bet a not insignificant percentage of the population believed that a vote for Prop 8 was a vote FOR gay marriage.

Every single person who was in favor of Prop 8 repeated some lie as their reason for being in favor.

1. They were afraid their pastor would be sued or arrested for refusing to perform same-sex marriage.

2. They were afraid their churches would be sued or closed down for refusing to perform same-sex marriage.

3. They were afraid that kindergarten children would have to learn about gay sex.

and the winner, from a member of the Mormon Cult:

"If Proposition 8 doesn't pass, it will mean that basically that every religious and secular tradition from the recorded history of mankind is immoral."

These are the lies that these people were being fed under the guise of religious guidance. The priests and ministers who peddled this garbage committed a grave moral evil.

One Catholic priest spoke out against the lies and was stripped of his duties within hours -- by the same people who coddled pedophiles for years (and every provided new victims for them).

I live in WA but have family members who voted for Obama and other dem stuff but voted against gay marriage because of what they saw on tv.

My mom had told me she was going to vote for gay marriage because she liked Ellen but a day after election told me the ads changed her mind. She felt bad after I debunked them.

My older daughter who is pro lifer and voted for Bush last time, I was so happy she was voting for Obama I didn't talk to her about other stuff.

I think for people wavering on the issue there wasn't a strong enough message about civil rights and equal rights.

You can't shove something down peoples throats that people have grown up believing is a sin or wrong. I think its all about education.