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Seven-year-olds sing against same-sex marriage

In the city I'm in today, the Internet is basically broken -- citywide, roughly 80% of websites are inaccessible for some reason, including many that I frequently read -- and so, for the moment, I'm unable to write about several issues I wanted to address.  In the meantime, though:  there recently erupted one of those standard melodramas on the Right, protesting various videos showing adolescents expressing pro-Obama sentiments and, more generally, parents who have their kids express political views.

Here is an advertisement produced by a Christian ministry in California -- Clay Music Ministry -- in support of Proposition 8, the California referendum to strip same-sex couples of the right to marry.  It involves small school-aged children singing, and it really has to be seen to be believed:

 


Those wishing to do so can contribute to the No on 8 campaign here.

-- Glenn Greenwald

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