Your moment of DUH! Scare tactics convinced parents to vote against gay marriage

[WillParkinson]

Scare tactics convinced parents to vote against gay marriage
Celeste Lavin
By Celeste Lavin, 365gay.com
08.03.2010 11:53am EDT

In the last six weeks before Election Day 2008, 687,000 California voters changed their minds and opposed gay marriage, according to a new analysis on the votes behind Proposition 8- California’s ballot measure that banned gay marriage.

Polling predicted the outcome of the election to be much closer than it was. Lead analyst David Fleischer of the LA Times attributed the loss in California to this change in voters’ opinions. Over 500,000 of those 687,000 who changed minds were parents with children under the age of 18 living at home.

The ballot measure passed by 600,000 votes.

Why the sudden change in voters’ opinions?

Yes on 8 started running ads directly targeted at parents. In one ad, a girl runs cheerfully to her mother and says, “Mom! Guess what I learned in school today! I learned how a prince married a prince and how I can marry a princess!”

http://www.365gay.com/news/scare-tactics-convinced-parents-to-vote-against-gat-marriage/

[JuniperLea]

1. A lot of parents don't want to talk to their kids about sex, period.

Or, sex or periods for that matter:)

They certainly don't want to talk about homosexuality. Sadly, people have sex to have kids, but don't want the kids to know about that. But they don't want the kids to have sex. I guess if you ignore sex, it goes away?

Oh, and this gay stuff is catching, donchano. Even though most of us have known a little kid who was gay... this makes my head hurt.

[mitchtv]

2. I heard that from my nephew in LA

that particular commercial cost us dearly. Talk at work was the source

[NMMNG]

3. Of course

The RRRW knows they can always terrorize people with that shtick. It doesn't matter if there's a shred of truth to their claims, so long as they invoke the children.

[Hydra]

4. *lmao*

Cuz you know teh gay comes from talking about it!

Our nation enshrines stupidity.

:puke: