Yes on 8, Protect Marriage - Restoring Marriage and Protecting California Children

MEDIA ADVISORY, October 9 – Yes on Proposition 8’s second television ad began statewide airing Wednesday.  A Spanish version began airing Tuesday.  Copies of the ad are available on the www.ProtectMarriage.com website or by calling the campaign at (916) 446-2956. The text of the ad follows:

Protect Marriage

“It’s Already Happened”

Draft TV Script – FINAL APPROVED FOR PRODUCTION

INT. KITCHEN.        A mom is sitting at the kitchen table working on paperwork. Her young daughter, a second-grader, comes into the kitchen and excitedly starts talking.

GIRL

Mom, guess what we learned in school today?

MOM

What, sweetie?

MCU:Girl is fishing something out of her backpack.

GIRL

We learned about a prince who married another prince.

CU:     The girl hands her mother a copy of the book, King and King.

GIRL

And I can marry a princess.

CU MOM. She has a look of total disbelief on her face.

EFX: The footage of the kitchen scene freezes. We have a distinguished gentleman in a dark suit walk on screen. (He’s standing before a green screen.)

SUPER:        Professor Richard Peterson

                        Pepperdine University School of Law

PETERSON

Think it can’t happen? It’s already happened.

EFX: Peterson walks off screen. Footage of court scene comes up.

ANNCR

When Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, schools began teaching second graders that boys can marry boys. The courts ruled…

SUPER:        No Legal Right to Object

Parker v. Hurley, 414 F.3d 87 (1^st Cir.2008)

ANNCR

Parents had no right to object.

EFX:   We see footage of a book that reads California Education Code. A hand opens it to section 51933. Camera moves to a close up and the words are highlighted in yellow: “Instruction and materials shall teach respect for marriage.”

ANNCR

Under California law, public schools instruct kids about marriage. Teaching children about gay marriage WILL happen here,

EFX:   We are back in the kitchen. We see the mother holding the book in her hands with a dumbfounded look on her face.

ANNCR

…unless we pass Proposition 8.

SUPER:        Protect Our Children. Restore Marriage. Yes on Proposition 8

                        www.protectmarriage.com

EFX:               A red swoosh line comes on screen underlining the text as if from a magic marker.

ANNCR

Yes on 8.

SUPER:        Paid for by ProtectMarriage.com – Yes on 8, a project of California Renewal. Major funding by Knights of Columbus, National Organization for Marriage California Committee and Focus on the Family.

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