DISQUS

Ralph Lowrance (Charlotte, NC) · 2 months ago

Bill, why not let the group waste its money running ads on your site? Your readers are not likely to fall for the tripe the antigay marriage groups are selling. If some of your readers ARE against gay marriage, maybe they can spark a lively discussion of the issues involved.

WDL · 2 months ago

Good points, Ralph. It does seem that the Protect Marriage ad disappeared last evening after I put it into my list of blocked ads.

My question is how it got onto this site. I think all of this is determined by Google, but why would that particular ad make it to this site just now?

A moment ago, I read an analysis of what's happening financially in Maine in this last week of the campaign. Though the anti-gay marriage folks have claimed their funds are running out and that they have some heavy bills to pay, suddenly, their ads--very expensive ones--are proliferating.

We know this because Maine has a financial disclosure rule for each 24-hour period in the final week of a campaign.

Question is, where is that money coming from for these expensive ads? Best candidate: NOM. And since they haven't disclosed their funding sources and are fighting not to do so, we really don't know where, in the last analysis, all this money is coming from.

Good things, things that are praiseworthy and ethically upright, don't fear daylight. When there's such need to keep things hidden and to skirt and challenge full-disclosure laws, it seems highly likely to me that there's something rotten being concealed.

coolmom · 2 months ago

Church and rectory properties are full of YES signs. And we are getting robocalls to vote YES. The bishop is coming this weekend to our parish with an honor guard of Knights of Columbus with swords and plumes! As a gentleman in his eighties said this weekend while leaving church, "It is so embarrassing to be Catholic these days. They seem to think we are fools!"

WDL · 2 months ago

Coolmom, what a heartening report. Thanks for letting me know. It gives me hope.

Are the signs on church and rectory property being put up by parishioners or priests? That would be interesting--a sign that people may be fed up with being dunned for money to take away rights from others, by a bishop living in a lavish mansion.

Plumes and swords, indeed! The emptier the authority figures become, the more they need pomp and circumstance to hide the emptiness--as if we don't have eyes in our heads.