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Walk to Revoke Prop. 8 Arrives in Santa Barbara

Posted November 27, 2008 by David Pritchett

Tracie Jones & Valerie Paget walk through Santa Barbara on their way to California Supreme Court in San Francisco. David Pritchett met them 25th November 2008 at East Beach, and interviewed them for this YouTube-hosted video embedded way below.



As a short-leash subject of Off-Leash Public Affairs, this video story pairs with the Indy news article by Cathy Murillo about the same civil rights walkers on their way from Los Angeles to San Francisco to send a message to California Supreme Court about equal rights under the California Constitution.

Pritchett interviews Tracie Jones and Valerie Paget about the recently successful Proposition 8 on the California ballot 3 weeks prior, and what they and the people they are meeting on the way would tell California Supreme Court about marriage equality for same-gender couples, a civil right eliminated by Prop. 8.

Their effort walking from Los Angeles to San Francisco has a website (www.Revoke8.com) with a blog of their daily activities and people they meet. Santa Barbara is Day 8 on their journey, with some photos of fun videographers and Independent photogs they met. They hiked in the rain through North County on days 9 through 11, including an interesting tale of how they were received (NOT) by Santa Ynez Valley Journal but were liked by the non-discriminatory ostriches and emus in Buellton and a few nice folks in Solvang.

On Day 7, they passed through Carpinteria, and here below is the article (27Nov.2008, page 5) from Coastal View News. CLICK on the article picture for a full size, legible image.





Video by David Pritchett (10:40 minutes).

BEST VIEWED with Mozilla Firefox as your Internets browser; if you see just the left half of the image (as with Micro$oft IE or Apple Safari), just click TWICE on the image to get a new window from YouTube and then best viewed there in High Quality mode with full screen box selected.

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Posted by ann on November 30 at 3:12 a.m.

Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-8199?l=engl......

Medical Downside of Homosexual Behavior

A Political Agenda Is Trumping Science, Says Rick Fitzgibbons

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, SEPT. 18, 2003
(Zenit.org).- Amid the push for same-sex unions
in Canada and the recent overturning of Texas' sodomy law, an aspect of the
underlying issue is sometimes overlooked: the medical consequences of
homosexual behavior.

MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HOMOSEXUALS DO
http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_Ed......

Posted by ann on November 30 at 3:30 a.m.

http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_Ed...

Posted by David_Pritchett on December 1 at 9:13 a.m.

Ann, when that theory is published in the Journal of American Medical Association, then do get back to us.

California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron George wrote in his May opinion about same-gender marriage that, under the California Constitution, "the constitutionally based right to marry properly must be understood to encompass the core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with marriage that are so integral to an individual's liberty and personal autonomy that they may not be eliminated or abrogated by the Legislature or by the electorate through the statutory initiative process."

Posted by truestories on December 4 at 1:18 p.m.

What just happened to me is interesting. I tried to click the link to read the study, but the filter on the network where I work blocked it. The screen that came up said the site fell into the "Intolerance & Hate" category, and I am quoting that, not just using quotes. Now I'm curious to see the guidelines/definitions the network firewall uses.

Posted by river on December 4 at 5:31 p.m.

Well goodness me, that is one stellar example of a not-the-brightest-bulb-in-the-pack website! Can websites qualify for Darwin Awards? This one is a contender.

With a study proclaiming that a third of foster parent molestations are homosexual, don't you worry your pretty little head about trying to figure out the sexual orientation of the other two thirds of molesting foster parents.

Math Shmath.

And then there is the comment bemoaning the demise of civilization due to western nations not generating enough children due, in part, to women in the workplace.

Love that word generating.

Yup, I'd say this site qualifies for the hate category for just about anyone who isn't a white heterosexual male.

Posted by hank on December 12 at 3:50 p.m.

River:"Yup, I'd say this site qualifies for the hate category for just about anyone who isn't a white heterosexual male."

You mean to say that there's no "non-White heterosexual males" in favor of eliminating same sex marriage in this world?
Last election showed quite the opposite: 53% of all Latino voters, 71% of all Black voters.
Math schmath? Just the facts :) henry

Posted by binky on December 12 at 9:53 p.m.

Come on, Hank, pick a side!

One minute you're saying:

::::: Posted on December 5 at 11:52 a.m.

::::: "There's an old saying that floated around in the math dept. @ UCSB: 'W/ polls you can show anything, especially after the effect is said & done.'"

... and the next minute you're quoting polls.

Remember what you can injure by spending too much time straddling the fence.

Posted by hank on December 13 at 8:21 a.m.

Binky, no fence standing/sitting here bro, just pointing out the blanket statement obvious for all to see.
Against prop 8 simply on a Constitutional basis, that's established.
Judeo-Christian set of beliefs, that's established.
Of the Latino persuasion, that's established.
See NO reason to make blanket statements against 1 group of a vast voting demographic, that's established.
It is THOSE blanket statements that will erode any support the no on 8 crowd hopes to garner in the future.
How easy it is to single out the "White, Christian (implied) heterosexual male" population, sounds pretty racist in my humble opinion.
The ONLY reason for the statistic presented was to show the hypocritical side to the comment made & to prove that (again) w/ statistics you can prove anything.
But you're definately right, straddling a fence can cause damage to some pretty complex gear. Learned that 1 @ an early age. OUCH! HAHAHA! :) henry

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