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To my California peeps:
As you have likely seen on Television, there is a commercial airing aimed at frightening California voters into Voting "Yes on 8"- making same sex marriages once again illegal in the state of California. The commercial features a law professor from Pepperdine University named Richard Peterson.
Under pressure from students and alumni, Pepperdine University has asked that their name be removed from the commercial. There has been no discussion of disciplinary action against Mr. Peterson for using the University's name to bolster his mean spirited agenda.
Please send an email to Mr. Peterson to tell him how his actions may impact your life or the lives of others that you care about: Richard.Peterson@pepperdine.edu
You may want to copy your email to the president of Pepperdine: Andrew.Benton@pepperdine.edu
UPDATE:
(thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cpratt!)
Looks like the Yes on Proposition 8 ad that features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declaring same-sex marriage is here to stay, "like it or not," has hit a legal - if not political - snag down in Southern California.
Newsom's bit is fine - but apparently not the part where Pepperdine University law Professor Richard Peterson warns that, if same-sex marriages remain on the books, people could be sued over personal beliefs, churches could lose their tax exemptions, and gay marriage could be "taught in public schools."
A number of alumni who saw the ad contacted the university president's office to protest what appeared to be Pepperdine's own endorsement of Prop. 8, which would violate its tax-exempt status. The university is affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
University spokesman Jerry Derloshon said that was never the intention, and last week campus executives fired off a letter to the Yes on 8 campaign asking that it remove the crawler identifying Peterson as a Pepperdine professor.
Late Friday, the campaign said the ad was being revised.
As you have likely seen on Television, there is a commercial airing aimed at frightening California voters into Voting "Yes on 8"- making same sex marriages once again illegal in the state of California. The commercial features a law professor from Pepperdine University named Richard Peterson.
Under pressure from students and alumni, Pepperdine University has asked that their name be removed from the commercial. There has been no discussion of disciplinary action against Mr. Peterson for using the University's name to bolster his mean spirited agenda.
Please send an email to Mr. Peterson to tell him how his actions may impact your life or the lives of others that you care about: Richard.Peterson@pepperdine.edu
You may want to copy your email to the president of Pepperdine: Andrew.Benton@pepperdine.edu
UPDATE:
(thanks,
cpratt!)Looks like the Yes on Proposition 8 ad that features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declaring same-sex marriage is here to stay, "like it or not," has hit a legal - if not political - snag down in Southern California.
Newsom's bit is fine - but apparently not the part where Pepperdine University law Professor Richard Peterson warns that, if same-sex marriages remain on the books, people could be sued over personal beliefs, churches could lose their tax exemptions, and gay marriage could be "taught in public schools."
A number of alumni who saw the ad contacted the university president's office to protest what appeared to be Pepperdine's own endorsement of Prop. 8, which would violate its tax-exempt status. The university is affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
University spokesman Jerry Derloshon said that was never the intention, and last week campus executives fired off a letter to the Yes on 8 campaign asking that it remove the crawler identifying Peterson as a Pepperdine professor.
Late Friday, the campaign said the ad was being revised.
