Basic Rights Oregon sets out to change minds on gay marriage

Dan82 · Jul 29, 2010

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/basic_rights_oregon_sets_out_t.html

If you live in Oregon and oppose same-sex marriage, gay-rights supporters will be trying to change your mind -- and ultimately reverse a state ban on gay marriage -- with a three-week advertising campaign.

Basic Rights Oregon, the state's largest gay-rights group, last week began airing 30-second ads on various cable television stations covering Ashland, Cottage Grove, Florence, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany and Coos, Clatsop and Washington counties. The ads are expected to cost several hundred thousand dollars and reach about 300,000 people.

In addition, the group is mailing 50,000 brochures to households within those areas that explain why gay and lesbian couples want to marry.

"Our hope is to reach many more people with the message and continue to inspire those one-on-one conversations that we feel are critical to building understanding and support for the freedom to marry," said Jeana Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon.

The ad campaign is part of the group's larger sustained effort, now in its second year, to persuade more Oregonians to support making gay marriage legal, as it is now in five states and the District of Columbia. The group has been sending staff and supporters to meet with churches and civic groups and to knock on people's doors.

Basic Rights has said it will try as early as 2012 to put an initiative on the ballot that would ask Oregon voters to lift the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that they approved by passing Measure 36 in 2004.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/basic_rights_oregon_sets_out_t.html
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Emberstone · Jul 29, 2010

the ads are really good too. I have been seeing them for a few weeks, and they basically are a series of couples, gay and straight talking about the value of marriage and commitment in relationships.

I actually contacted the group to do volunteer work.

Alex19 · Jul 30, 2010

its not legal here in ny either but its also not neccissarilry banned either. im glad i live in ny...

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