This just really upsets me in so many ways. I also particularily despise the use of California as a backdrop to this ill-concieved, insidious and snivelling whingeing. There is no place, least of all California, for this sanctimonious and ignorant hate mongering.
Let me also add, as commercial visual communicator, I am aware of the etiological ramifications and responsibility of my work, the products I choose to promote through that exchange, and at times upon consideration I have felt conflicted with the messages they purport as being responsible for promoting socially scripted belief systems that aren't necessarily the greatest. This is something I have been grappling with quite a bit of late.
This commercial however, strikes me as so vulgar, poisonous, and a shameful use of the tools and manner of communication in which my peers and colleagues work in earnest to elevate an expressive form, to challenge, inform, and at times provide inspiration. This commercial is none of those things. I'll stop there.
Please, please everyone vote NO ON PROP 8.
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Wooooooow... the statements in this video are so scary and sad! It's amazing how people can be so blind. What a word we would live in if we let laws like this pass...
scary indeed... and it's true that it's especially weird/painful to see california used to spread such a message.
I voted Yes. And no, it doesn't suck. No one keeps you away from your partner, your vows to each other are what they are, smae sex or not. Ultimately no one says you cant live with your same sex partner, but simply that being wed does not naturally transfer the dynamic of a wedded man and woman. No it doesnt F!@#N suck. Its actually good.
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