Wow. Bloggers contributed over 400 posts for Write to Marry Day, sharing both personal and political reasons for standing against California’s Proposition 8. Participants included both LGBT bloggers and non-LGBT allies, parents, people of faith, national and state LGBT and civil rights organizations, and blogs both large and small.
Many thanks to all of you who posted and encouraged others to do so. I know many of you have been writing against Prop 8 for months now. I hope our united voices helped each of ours carry a little farther.
Mike Rogers, the co-organizer, and I have picked a winner of the $50 Amazon.com gift certificate out of participants who left a valid e-mail address. Fran, whose entry is here, won the contest. (We’ll continue to take late submissions of posts throughout today, but the contest is closed.)
Four hundred posts is a lot to read through, so I’ll ask all of you to comment here on ones that caught your eye. Which did you find the most touching, funny, or convincing? Which ones spoke to you, and which ones will you pass on to family and friends?
Despite the success of this event, things are looking grim for equality right now. No On 8 told people yesterday: “Unless we raise $3 million in the next three days we will likely lose.”
To move the message, the campaign must push hard in print, radio and television ads. Please go to the Equality for All ActBlue page to give your donations.
Also, breaking news this morning is that the No On Prop 8 page is being hit by a denial-of-service attack designed to block others from accessing the site. It’s up as of this writing, but has been iffy. The Equality for All ActBlue page is still working, however, so people can continue to give even in the face of this heinous act.
Money is the greatest need, but community leaders in California are also reminding people:
- For those who vote in California: Don’t Stop at the Top! – Propositions are at the bottom of the ballot. At Don’t Stop at the Top people can submit mobile numbers of friends in California so on election day they are reminded to vote down ballot.
- No On 8 is seeking volunteers to help with Get Out The Vote efforts throughout the state. To volunteer, visit the No On 8’s Netroots page.
Thanks, Dana, for including word of the cyberattack on No on 8, which, we hear from Kate Kendall and Geoff Kors, is now under federal investigation.
I’d also like to pass along the other thing they’ve passed along in their emails this afternoon: the Hitler card has now been played by the Yes on 8 campaign.
I just posted on it: No, no. Make that, UN-holy crap.