legal extortion

[Don Quixote]

[FONT=&quot]Calif. gay marriage ban backers target businesses[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]10/23/2008 6:37:00 PM[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Associated Press/AP Online[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]By LISA LEFF [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of the campaign to outlaw same-sex marriage in California made an offer to businesses that have given money to the state's largest gay-rights group: Give us money or we'll publicly identify you as opponents of traditional unions. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Supporters of same-sex marriage called the tactic "an attempt to extort people" and "a bit Mafioso." [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]ProtectMarriage.com, the umbrella group behind a ballot initiative that would overturn this year's California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, targeted about 35 companies in the appeal, spokeswoman Sonya Eddings Brown said. [/FONT]

 

[RockX]

Good for them, put the screws to them. No different then what the No on 8 backers are doing.

http://www.prweekus.com/Campaign-targets-supporters-of-CA-Prop-8/article/116179/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121979337416974603.html?mod=googlenews_wj

 

[Damocles]

The "no on 47, 49, and 54" guys here extorted money from businesses, in return they removed ballot initiatives 53, 55, 56 & 57 from the CO ballot this year. The payment they received was directly stated to be for defeating the other ballot measures.

I hope those things pass, especially 47. I'm tired of the Union attempting every year to go after us again. It just gets tiring.