www.savingmarriagethemovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nAlongside such issues as abortion, teaching evolution in schools, the right to bear arms, etc, the issue of same sex marriage as a way to drive a wedge between Americans is a long-favored tactic of the Republican Party. A new documentary called Boogieman traces these types of tactics to Lee Atwater, a young man from South Carolina who showed Republicans that they could win races by using symbols of American patriotism, by whipping up cultural resentment, racism, and religious bigotry, and by ruthlessly planting rumors and lies in the media to tear down an opponent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The most high-profile ballot measure this November, Proposition 8, looks likely to pass with the latest polls showing a win for the Yes side 47-42%. Prop 8 seeks to amend the California state constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, and was put on the ballot in response to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The most high-profile ballot measure this November, Proposition 8, looks likely to pass with the latest polls showing a win for the Yes side 47-42%. Prop 8 seeks to amend the California state constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, and was put on the ballot in response to a state Supreme Court decision earlier this year that overturned a same-sex marriage ban. Since that court decision, thousands of same-sex couples have tied the knot and are not sure what their marriage certificates will mean if Prop 8 passes. A concerted and well funded effort by right wing religious conservatives has proliferated a deceptive ad campaign that flipped the poll numbers in a matter of weeks. The ads contend, among other things, that same-sex marriage will be taught in public schools if proposition 8 were to fail. If the state constitution is amended, the Supreme Court will be required to uphold it. Opponents of Prop 8 are pulling out all the stops to defeat Prop 8, with LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the California Teachers Association and others donating more than $3 million to the effort. <\/p>\n