If lies don’t work, then maybe threats and blackmail will.

Posted on October 24, 2008
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If lies don’t work, then maybe threats and blackmail will.

Yesterday, donors and supporters of Equality California began receiving threatening letters from the “Yes on 8″ campaign leadership.

These letters threatened to “expose” the donors listed on our website if they don’t donate to the “Yes on 8″ campaign and refrain from supporting Equality California in the future.

That’s how low the other side is willing to go. They are willing to threaten organizations and other donors who support efforts to protect youth and seniors, as a way to raise money in their effort to eliminate our right to marry.

In any other circumstance I would characterize this despicable strategy as sad — but we are in the fight of lives here in California.

So, will you stand with us? Will you make a donation to support equality ?

Will you add your name to our website by making a donation and show that you won’t be intimidated by their threats or lies?

Make a donation today to show the other side that we will not go back to the closet of inequality.

The letter, sent on their campaign letterhead, was signed by four members of the group’s executive committee and suggests our donors withdraw their support for their own good. It demands an equivalent donation or else:

“Were you to elect not to donate comparably, it would be a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage. You would leave us no other reasonable assumption. The names of any companies…that choose not to donate…to ProtectMarriage.com…will be published.

…We will contact you shortly to discuss your contribution.”

This outrageous attempt to raise money by using threats reveals their true agenda: to harm the LGBT community, our organizations, our allies and our supporters, permanently.

Donate now and send a message to the other side – We reject your effort to intimidate us, and we reject your shameful lies. We will fight to protect our freedom.

Please forward this message to everyone you know, and ask them to stand with us too.

We will not give in to these un-American ways of bullying and lies. We call on all Californians to reject these McCarthy-like tactics.