In a mailer sent out primarily to black voters, ProtectMarriage.com, whose backers includes the Knights of Columbus and Focus on the Family, are inaccurately suggesting they have Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's support. Obama has repeatedly stated that he opposes Proposition 8.

The words from the religious leaders warn of "mandatory indoctrination" of school children and say it's "insulting that radical gay activists try to equate" the civil rights movement to the push for same-sex marriage.

This weekend, LA Times attacked the "Yes on 8" campaign's misleading tactics:

Clever magicians practice the art of misdirection — distracting the eyes of the audience to something attention-grabbing but irrelevant so that no one notices what the magician is really doing. Look over at that fuchsia scarf, up this sleeve, at anything besides the actual trick.

The campaign promoting Proposition 8, which proposes to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, has masterfully misdirected its audience, California voters.
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Look at anything except what Proposition 8 is actually about: a group of people who are trying to impose on the state their belief that homosexuality is immoral and that gays and lesbians are not entitled to be treated equally under the law.

That truth would never sell in tolerant, live-and-let-live California, and so it has been hidden behind a series of misleading half-truths. Once the sleight of hand is revealed, though, the campaign's illusions fall away.

Last update: 11-03-2008 10:45