I’m so sick of this election – I can’t wait for it to be over. That being said, as I’m surfing the web this evening I’ve been inundated with Yes on 8 advertisements spewing their hate and bigotry in my direction. So…..I’ve decided to click the ads. Why? Because each time I click (or you click, or your friends click) it spends the money of the campaign on someone who won’t vote for it. Think of this as creative anti-contribution to the campaign.
Yahoo Sports is rife with these ads, I encourage you to surf on over and click a few hundred times. If you like this idea, spread it around.
Update: Apparently this idea has some legs, it appears to have been Stumbled and submitted to Hacker News. For the record, I haven’t advocated using bots to do this because that would be a DoS attack. While I disagree with Yes on 8, the campaign does have a right to communicate their message of hate and bigotry and a DoS approach would deny them their First Amendment right.
But I don’t think that humans clicking, making a conscious decision to do so, rises to the level of such an attack and certainly doesn’t interfere with their First Amendment rights. It simply bleeds money from the campaign.
What’s wrong with prohibiting same sex marriage? Marriage is a religious institution albeit one that is recognized by our tax system. Seems to me that the definition of marriage does not need to be adjusted but rather our tax system such that two like-minded people of the same sex could enjoy the same tax benefits as traditional opposite-sex couples. Just don’t call it marriage call it a mutual union or something. It should not be the place of our government to redefine God’s word.
What’s wrong with prohibiting people who believe in some ‘god’ or ‘word of god’ from voting? If there was such a proposition on the ballot, given your comment, you might think that unfair to remove a right you have as a citizen. So, it’s clear, if you have to ask, you don’t understand and won’t until a right is removed from you or a class of people you care about.
This is your idea of Denial of Service attack? Getting no-on-8 people to click on yes-on-8 web sites? Com’n Mike, fire up the computers to do this. Better yet, call Steve Young.
Seriously, their marriages do not hurt anybody. Every homosexual people I know are loving and decent ones. Denial of their unions the name of marriage is the same as the “separate by equal” argument. America is supposed to the country that is fair to all individuals. Let’s keep it that way.
I’ve been doing this with mccain ads in general for a while! It’s a great idea.
@Tim Pouyer: marriage was a natural institution well before it was a religious one.
Proposition 8 does not even come close to requiring religious organizations to change what they consider a proper “XYZ marriage” (replace XYZ with “catholic”, “protestant”, “muslim”, etc.) under their own rules.
Can we justify a campaign to open ads put up by the LDS church, ads for the Book of Mormon, ads put up by Focus on the Family, etc? To the extent that they appear in Google, it would help repay Google for their help with No on 8!
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