Supporters of the proposed constitutional marriage amendment say that more than $10,000 worth of their billboards and yard signs have been destroyed in the past few weeks. And, in a fundraising email sent out Tuesday, they blame it on their opponents.
... Rachel Lee, a spokeswoman for Vote for Marriage N.C., says most of the vandalism occurred in Buncombe County, but there have been reports of damage across the state. She said the incident has been reported to Buncombe County law enforcement.
Here’s their email:
“Even though our opponents are attempting to discourage the preservation of marriage in North Carolina, their actions are actually doing the opposite. Despite their malicious intentions, they are actually encouraging supporters like you to rally around us.
“Restitution is needed to overcome this damage. You can help push us forward. Today, we are launching a money bomb to raise $10,000 so that we can spread our message of truth across North Carolina!”
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"SSM" supporters don't want free and open debate. They just want to bully everyone into accepting their position(ironic, given their obssession with bullying as an issue).
(ironic, given their obsession with bullying as an issue).
Hitler hated "homosexuals" and Jews; yet he was a homosexual and his father was Jewish.
Are we starting to see a pattern; I wonder if all the factual data on this topic might actually be based on historical precedence after-all?
Things that make you go "hmmmm."
Photo evidence please, or is just a plea for more money?
That tactic didn't work in California, and it won't work in North Carolina either.
Sylvatica,
Are you incapable of clicking on the provided photo, or are you just being argumentative?
More attempts to stifle free speech with destructive activity. Always happens when SSM-ers are losing on the merits.
@sylvatica,
Photo evidence? Please, who are you joking! We could put in front of you photo evidence that man-man is quite different than man-woman; enough so that they merit different names. And you still wouldn't accept to believe your own eyes. And you think we're going to wast our time drawing you pictures of signs. You want evidence of the signs of reality? Open your eyes!
As far as money; yours is always welcome here.
Care to show some evidence and refrain from putting words on other people's mouths, Good News?
dn, care to commit right now, before the evidence is presented, that you will denounced vandalism of property such as these signs?
If not, why not?
If yes, please do so on the record here and other places in the blogosphere where you encounter your fellow SSM supporters.
That's easy, Chairm. I codemn vandalism of legal signs, regardless of their message.
The homosexual lobby is big on evidence, God forbid anyone rely on common sense. They reported it to law enforcement; you need to see the police report? Seriously, you think the false reporting of billboard damage is a great fundraising motivator over the detrimental effects of so-called SS"M"?
Homosexualists like "evidence" because they can make it up as they go along, such as in their faux "research" studies conducted by biased homosexual social "scientists."
Is that what you think of the other side, Chairm? Do yoy think we have no respect for the law? And while we're on the topic, I will point out that I'm not asking you to state your stance on vandalism of pro-gay signs. To ask that would be childish.
Right, Resist. Because peer reviewed science is junk and common sense is a) common and b) accurate.
Common sense is the intellectual equivalent of "having a good personality."
DN,
"science" reaching pro-homosexuality conclusions is junk.
@dn
Make a contribution to NOM, and you will have evidence that your money also is welcome here.
Back on subject: man-man, woman-woman is not marriage.
dn - We're talking here about whether the billboards were actually damaged or, as one SSMer suggested, they were not damaged and NOM just claimed that they were in order to drum up cash. I don't believe there is a peer-reviewed article on NOM billboard damage....
I assumed that you had the COMMON SENSE to recognize what my comment was directed at. I think that might be the problem with you SSMers; you've no respect for common sense because you're sorely lacking in it.
dn, we agree: I, too, condemn vandalism of property such as these political signs.
I asked because SSMers need to have the opportunity here to make their position on this very clear.
Thank you for returning the favor. We are now clear on this.
Have you said as much to your fellow SSMers on pro-SSM blogsites?
During the CA marriage amendment campaign there was a great deal of excuse-making when it came to this very sort of behavior.
@SSM Supporters
The photo evidence you airheadedly request like sheep is right on this page. CAN YOU READ? Maybe you should move to a country that bans reading, since you won't be affected by the laws there. Duh.
--Victor Golf Charles, The LGBT Community's Worst Nightmare
Chairm, I have as much of a duty as you do to apologize for something I didn't do. Get over it.
Resist, ad hominen attacks on me? Grow up.
dn -
The ad hominen was deserved; the point was about common sense, and you expressed a lack of it.
A great example is in that both "marriage corruption" and "marraige equality" are ad hominem's:
"appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect"
The point being made is that those that support the redefining of marriage are, in fact, supporting the imposition of ad hominem's in an obvious attempt to lend a greater appearance of acceptability to their proclivity.
dn, you were not asked to apologize.
I can overlook your heated misrepresentation to acknowledge, too, that it is good that you have not here excused the vandalism.
Does anyone know where I can get some "YES" yard signs in Charlotte?