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CALL IN GAY DAY PROP 8 PROTEST DAY WITHOUT GAY VIDEO

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Logo TV produced a video about the possible effect that national "call in gay day"  may have on  the nation.

The 24-year-old manager of a downtown Seattle coffee shop is taking the day off without pay, intending to volunteer at the Northwest Women's Law Center. It's part of a national grass-roots effort called "Day Without a Gay," designed to show the size and impact of the gay and lesbian community. Organizers are urging people to "call in gay" — skipping work to volunteer at human-rights organizations. Energized by the success of last month's anti-Proposition 8 protests nationwide, gay-rights activists and organizations are planning other actions. Two are happening today coinciding with International Human Rights Day. Along with "Day Without a Gay," Catholics who support gay rights plan to demonstrate in Seattle and five other cities against the Vatican's opposition to a proposed United Nations resolution calling for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. The rights of gays and lesbians have gained considerable attention after the recent elections, when California voters approved Proposition 8, stripping gays of the benefit of marriage, and Florida and Arizona passed gay-marriage bans. Arkansas residents voted to ban unmarried couples from adopting children or serving as foster parents. All of that is attracting the attention of people who are undecided about gay rights, contends Sean Hetherington, 30, a Los Angeles comedian and personal trainer. It was Hetherington who, with his boyfriend, came up with "Day Without a Gay" and created a Web site (www.daywithoutagay.org) source

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PROP 8 - THE MUSICAL JACK BLACK STARS AS JESUS IN GAY MARRIAGE VIDEO

There isn't anything we can think to say about this Prop 8 musical skit produced by Funny or Die. The gay marriage musical clip stars comedian Jack Black as Jesus.

The New York Times has an interview with Marc Shaiman about the viral video musical which has already  received for than 1.2 million hits online.

In just one day of online existence, the Funny Or Die video “Prop 8­ — The Musical” has received more than 1.2 million hits. The comedic song-and-dance diatribe about the California ballot initiative to define marriage as existing only between a man and a woman stars a cast of dozens, including John C. Reilly, Neil Patrick Harris, Maya Rudolph, and Jack Black as Jesus Christ.

The musical itself is the brainchild of Marc Shaiman, the composer of the film and stage musical “Hairspray,” as well as some of the filthier songs in “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.” Assembled in a week, it’s also the result of a process that began when Mr. Shaiman, who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles, alerted his friends and colleagues that Scott Eckern, the musical director of Sacramento’s California Musical Theater, had donated money to a Yes-on-Prop 8 campaign. The proposition has already passed, and Mr. Eckern has since resigned, so what has Mr. Shaiman gained from this video? He discusses the creation of “Prop 8­–The Musical” in a Q&A below.

How did your mass e-mail message about Scott Eckern and the California Musical Theater end up spawning this video?
I sent an e-mail to a lot of people, anyone who’s in my phone book, and said, “Can you believe this guy?” I’d rather almost not talk about him and that situation anymore, because he’s certainly gone through enough. But that e-mail, one of the people it went to was Adam McKay [a co-founder of FunnyOrDie.com]. He wrote me back, basically, just saying, “Why don’t you write a song about it for Funny Or Die?” Which was like, the slapping-my-head moment. Oh yeah, why didn’t I think of that? Or why didn’t I do that in the first place?

It took a few weeks to calm down enough to be able to find the humor in it all. So once he planted that seed in my head, I basically went the next day to the piano and started to write – a week later we were filming it.

Is this the first time you’ve created a viral video for the Internet?
I’m so old, I can’t remember. To this extent, certainly. I have done things that have ended up on the Internet. Luckily, nothing sexual. Yet. But the night is still young. source

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PROP 8 RALLIES TURN VIOLENT PROTESTORS ATTACK BLACKS USE N-WORD WOMAN CARRYING CROSS ATTACK VIDEO

Some California Prop 8 rallies have turned violent with protestors hurling racial slurs at Black people who were blamed for the passage of the proposition against Gay Marriage. Watch video of one Chrisitian California resident and Prop 8 supporter who was attacked by an angry crowd of protestors for carrying a cross.  The news crew filming was also confronted. The woman told reporters,"They began grabbing me. It was like a dog pack."

Truth Wins Out's Wayne Besen condemns racial intolerance within the LGBT community and says it is "reprehensible to look for scapegoats." People for the American Way president Kathryn Kolbert also releases a statement. Both after the jump.) Not that this wasn't expected. The recent passage of California's Proposition 8 has exposed some of the latent racism of many within the LGBT community—instigated in part by many in the e-telligentsia such as  revisionist Andrew Sullivan and sex advisor turned sociologist Dan Savage. Unfortunately the "blame the blacks" meme is being commonly accepted by some so-called "progressive" gay activists. A number of Rod 2.0 and Jasmyne Cannick readers report being subjected to taunts, threats and racist abuse at last night's marriage equality rally in Los Angeles. Geoffrey, a student at UCLA and regular Rod 2.0 reader, joined the massive protest outside the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. Geoffrey was called the n-word at least twice.

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