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Text continues: "Unfair. Divisive. Intrusive. The Knight Initiative."Red text on white background. Additional text includes general information on the Knight Initiative and the potential effects of its passage.

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Title If Knight wins, we all lose

Subject Law and legislation (lcsh), No on Knight Campaign (corporate name), Same-sex marriage (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), political posters (aat), sheet 43 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Date Created 2000

Creator No on Knight Campaign (creator)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher [California] (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights This item is protected by copyright. Copyright holder is unknown, unidentifiable or unlocatable. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-RUU/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-42269

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Resolution 22.6 in × 34.5 in at 300dpi
57.4 cm × 87.7 cm at 300dpi

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Content IR NS

WE ALL LOSE.

UNFAIR.
DIVISIVE.
INTRUSIVE.
THE KNIGHT
INITIATIVE.

WHO IS BEHIND THE KNIGHT
INITIATIVE AND WHAT DO THEY
REALLY WANT?

The Knight Initiative is an unfair, intrusive,
and divisive measure. It will appear on

the March 7 ballot. It states, “only marriage
between a man and woman is valid or
recognized in California.”

The Knight Initiative appears simple and
straight-forward. It’s not. Look who is
behind it: extremist State Senator Pete
Knight, the Christian Coalition, and others.

Your families and your marriage are not
endangered by gay and lesbian people.
But gay and lesbian people—all of

us in California—are endangered by the
Knight Initiative.

IT’S UNFAIR

The Knight Initiative can be used to take
children away from their parents, block

a person from seeing their loved one in
the hospital, or from having access to their
partner's health insurance.

Someone you know—a neighbor, a brother,
a co-worker, an aunt—is gay or lesbian.
The Knight Initiative will hurt them and their

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families by putting them at greater risk for
discrimination and violence. Anti-gay ballot
measures foster increased hate violence.

IT’S DIVISIVE.

The Knight Initiative will increase the rhetoric
of hate and intolerance toward gay and lesbian
Californians and their families. The Knight
Initiative is a mean-spirited effort to divide
and polarize Californians over marriage and
further a broader, right-wing agenda.

The Knight Initiative is about hurting families
—not protecting them.

IT’S INTRUSIVE.

The Knight Initiative introduces government
intrusion into private lives and choices.
Government ought not pass laws that
regulate private decisions about whom a
person chooses to spend his or her life with.

_ Regardless of your feelings about same-sex marriage,

we can all agree that the Knight Initiative is bad for
California:

Vice-President Al Gore

Presidential Candidate Bill Bradley

Sen. Barbara Boxer

Sen. Diane Feinstein

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-01)

U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-08)

U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-10)

U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell (R-15]

U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-30)

Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton (D-3})
Senator Byron Sher (D-11]

Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa (D-45])
Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-13]
Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl (D-41]
Mayor Willie Brown (San Francisco]

Los Angeles City Council

Interfaith Alliance

San Francisco Board of Supervisors

San Diego Human Rights Commission
California Teachers Association

SEIU Local No. 250

SEIU Local No. 790

San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
American Association of University Women
Planned Parenthood

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzalez

Sheriff Lee Baca (LA County]

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“.,. they're asking me to accept them and
their lifestyle as normal. And it’s not. | make a
judgment. Yeah, | think everybody should,”

—STATE SENATOR PETE KNIGHT

“..the more opinion leaders who note that
the (Knight Initiative] is utterly unnecessary,
and the earlier they do so, the better our
chances of de-fusing an issue that, if made
more controversial, could result in increased
hate and hurt in our state. Given that truth,
to remain silent is unacceptable.”

—J.S. REPRESENTATIVE TOM CAMPBELL (R-15)

“It's only a step from [the Knight Initiative]
to denying gays other deserved rights such as
domestic partnership benefits and hospital
visitation privileges. Can prohibiting gay
adoptions or repealing hate crime legislation
be far behind?...As Californians consider the
arguments for and against the Knight
Initiative, we trust they will retain their sense
of fairness, their appreciation of history and
their hope for the future.”

—SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER EDITORIAL BOARD

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Help defeat the Knight Initiative! Send donations to:
No On Knight Campaign :

505 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

For more information

(after 10/7/99) 323.964.0073

campaign@noonknight.org

on the campaign:
Northern CA
415-227-1020
southern CA

Email

KNIGHT

Website

www.NoOnkKnight.or

It’s divisive. It's intrusive. It’s unfair.

Inherited Values

Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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