"Don't Divorce Us" You need to see this video (DU link inside) ...

[ColbertWatcher]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5000562&mesg_id=5000562

[bluedawg12]

1. Thanks for the heads up - you're a good ally.

:thumbsup:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Thank you.

The video is very powerful.

[bluedawg12]

4. I wish we had something like that BEFORE Hate 8. I bet it would have made a difference.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. I think people were afraid of alienating the undecided ...

... yet easily manipulated, latent homophobic voters.

TWO GUYS KISSING! OH NOES!! etc.

[bluedawg12]

8. This particular ad was spot on.

There's a world of options between showing same sex couples smooching ( Oh NOoooo'es! ) and showing people with family, pets and friends who are also gay.

I guess, the only point at this juncture, is that this new vid-ad seriously rocks and I would love to see it as an ad buy for TV, because it is so well done.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. I thought it was well done, too.

I just remember hearing early on that some people were skittish about airing ads that were "too gay." In fact, I remember reading on DU a story about how there was a conspicuous lack of gay people in the ads against Prop H8.

I didn't agree, but I understood.

[midnight]

3. This was suprising to find out that Ken Star was the prop. 8

legal ring leader creating this division. Wow, this guy continues to cause chaos.

[bluedawg12]

5. I think Rove and Starr are evil twins.

:eyes:

[ColbertWatcher]

7. No kidding.

I bet he's in the Federalist Society too.

::googles::

Looks like he is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/federalist-soc.html

[bluedawg12]

10. That's a VERY intersting list.

Articles from WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Federalist+Society+for+Law+and+Public+Policy+Studies?tid=informline

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society
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>>Federalist Society

Purpose/focus To promote the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.<1>
Location Washington, DC

President Eugene B. Meyer<2>

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, is an organization of conservatives and libertarians seeking reform of the current American legal system<1> in accordance with an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. The Federalist Society began at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1982 as a student organization that challenged what its members perceived as the orthodox American liberal ideology found in most law schools. The Society "is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be."<1>

The Society currently has chapters at over 180 United States law schools and claims a membership of over 20,000 practicing attorneys (organized as "alumni chapters" within the Society's "Lawyers Division") in sixty cities.<1> Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Through speaking events, lectures, and other activities, the Federalist Society provides a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with members of the legal profession, the judiciary, law students, and academics.<1>

Federalist Society members helped to encourage President George W. Bush’s decision to terminate the American Bar Association’s nearly half-century-old monopoly on rating judicial nominees' qualifications for office. Since the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the American Bar Association has provided the service to presidents of both parties and the nation by vetting the qualifications of those under consideration for lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary. The Federalist Society believed the ABA showed a liberal bias in its recommendations.<9><10><11> For example, while former Supreme Court clerks nominated to the Court of Appeals by Democrats had an average rating of slightly below "well qualified," similar Republican nominees were rated on average as only "qualified/well qualified." In addition the ABA gave Ronald Reagan's judicial nominees Richard Posner and Frank H. Easterbrook its lowest possible ratings of "qualified/not qualified".<12> Judges Posner and Easterbrook have gone on to become the two most highly-cited judges in the federal appellate judiciary.<13><<
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Federalist_Society
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The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a organization of conservative and right-libertarian lawyers, law students, judges, professors and anyone else who is willing to claim some sort of intellectual credential or status. The organization was founded in 1982 to combat what was viewed as excessive liberal influence in the U.S. judiciary.

Like most conservative organizations, the Federalist Society is very selective in the sorts of liberty it embraces. If the interests of either Big Business or Big Religion are involved why then the Federalist Society is on their side. However if interests are those of a less powerful minority then they are on your own. They should seek help from the ACLU and pray that their legal cases do not come before a judge associated with the Federalist Society.

Members are fond are quoting Federalist Paper Number 78 for an articulation of the virtue of judicial restraint, as written by that arch-statist Alexander Hamilton: "It can be of no weight to say that the courts, on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature.... The courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDGMENT, the consequence would equally be the substitution of their pleasure to that of the legislative body." Hamilton liked a strong state with a strong executive to impose order on the lower orders and promote the interests of commerce.

The Federalist Society considers James Madison to be its patriarch—hence the use of Madison’s silhouette in the Society’s official logo. Madison is generally credited as the father of the Constitution and became the fourth President of the United States. He also died far too soon to endorse any entity quite as creepy as the Federalist Society.

The Federalist Society mission statement reads, in part:

is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, and law professors.

Treasonous Conspiracy?
According to one writer at Salon, "In 1982, Edwin Meese, Rehnquist and other first-generation legal conservatives reached out to law students and encouraged the founding of a new organization: the Federalist Society. Funded generously by Richard Mellon Scaife and patrons, the Federalist Society became a national networking organization that nurtured young conservatives and swiftly became the crucial channel to Supreme Court clerkships and prestigious jobs in the Reagan administration. In 'Closed Chambers,' former clerk Lazarus outlines how Federalist Society clerks formed a self-described "cabal against the libs" to push justices in a rightward direction. Conservative donors like Scaife were encouraged to endow professorships and to fund conferences and training institutes to tutor judges in corporate deregulation and other articles of conservative legal faith." Article Real Americans have to ask themselves the same thing they ask about the neo-conservatives who dragged the USA into an unnecessary and unwinnable war in Iraq, at what point does such an elite conspiracy become un-American? In the case of Federalist Society, when does conservative ideological subversion of judicial neutrality rise to the level of treason?

Notable Former Members
John G. Roberts Jr. (Bush Nominee to the Supreme Court)
Notable Members (Positions as of June 2004)
Spencer Abraham (Secretary of Energy)
Alex Acosta (Deputy Assistant Attorney General)
John Ashcroft (Attorney General)
William Barr
Bradford Berenson (Associate Counsel to the President)
Robert Bork
Ralph Boyd (Assistant Attorney General)
Jay Bybee (Circuit Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 9th C.)
Linda Chavez
Michael Chertoff (Assistant Attorney General)
Jeffrey Clarke (Deputy Assistant Attorney General)
Paul Clement (Principal Deputy Solicitor General)
Daniel Collins (Associate Deputy Attorney General)
R. Ted Cruz (Associate Deputy Attorney General)
Viet Dinh (Assistant Attorney General)
John Engler (former Governor of Michigan)
Noel Francisco (Associate Counsel to the President)
Sarah Hart (Director, National Institute of Justice)
Orrin Hatch (Senator)
Brian Jones (General Counsel, Education Department)
Brett Kavanaugh (Associate Counsel to the President)
William Kristol
Edwin Meese
Charles Murray (author of The Bell Curve)
Gale Norton (Secretary of the Interior)
Ted Olson (Solicitor General)
William Rehnquist (Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
Thomas Sansonetti (Assistant Attorney General)
Antonin Scalia (Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
Eugene Scalia (Solicitor, Department of Labor)
Kenneth Starr
Larry Thompson (Deputy Attorney General)
Edward Whelan (former Principal Deputy Assitant Attorney General)
John Yoo (former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel)
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[mitchtv]

9. I sent it to everyone on my list

I got some positive feedback , too

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Good to hear! n/t