• GnawingDog said on Oct 25, 2008....

  I suppose you are expecting some kind of response? Well Pepperdine University has concerns about Professor Richard Peterson.
  
  From http://www.jozjozjoz.com/
  
  
  As a recent graduate of Pepperdine’s business school, I still get email and other correspondence from the university and its alumni program. So when I received an email from Pepperdine’s PR department on October 2 with the subject line: Clarification re: Proposition 8 Ad, I was curious. The email said it was getting calls about a Pepperdine professor who was featured in an Proposition 8 TV ad.
  
  [...]
  
  Here is a the full text of the email (emphasis is mine):
  
  
  Dear Pepperdine Alumnus:
  
  Many members of the Pepperdine community have voiced opinions over a TV ad regarding Proposition 8. The ad features a Pepperdine professor and currently includes reference to his affiliation with the University.
  
  We’d like to stress that the professor does not represent a Pepperdine University-endorsed position, as the University does not advocate for/against political candidates or ballot propositions.
  
  The professor in the ad was not advocating a Pepperdine position, but his own personal position.
  
  We have received confirmation that our request to have the reference to Pepperdine University deleted from the ad will be honored. We have been assured that the ad will be revised, perhaps by today.
  
  Jerry Derloshon
  Executive Director
  Public Relations
  Pepperdine University
  

• GnawingDog said on Oct 25, 2008....

  There is more... from Law.com
  
  Law Professors Clash Over Gay Marriage, Churches' Tax-Exempt Status
  
  
  Hilary McLean, spokeswoman for California's superintendent of schools, Jack O'Connell, said the ad's claims are false.
  
  "There's nothing in the Education Code that requires schools to teach about marriage," McLean said. In schools that do provide instruction about marriage, locally elected school boards determine the content, she said.
  
  The ad is similar to one released last week that shows May 2008 footage of a giddy San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom telling a supportive crowd that gay marriage "is gonna happen whether you like it or not." The spot also features Peterson repeating the claim about gay marriage being taught in schools and warning that churches could lose their tax-exempt status for opposing same-sex unions.
  
  But the author of a newspaper op-ed cited in the ad as the basis for Peterson's comments said the pro-Prop 8 campaign "completely distorted" his position.
  
  "I never, ever, ever said anything about if churches do not perform same-sex marriages that you'll lose your tax-exempt status," said Robert DeKoven, a professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego. DeKoven's commentary in the July 3 edition of the Gay & Lesbian Times argues that it's unfair to give tax breaks to politically active religious institutions but not to individual activists and donors.
  
  DeKoven said he was never contacted by the Yes on 8 campaign or Peterson.
  
  "Frankly I'm shocked that he would be involved in a political commercial with such distortions in it," DeKoven said.

• GnawingDog said on Oct 25, 2008....

  From http://www.onbayarea.com/
  
  
  No on 8 Campaign Responds to False Ads With Legal Notice
  
  Yes on Proposition 8 campaign has been running commercials that claim the result of legalizing gay marriage means churches can be sued if they don’t agree with the new law, and children will be taught about gay marriage in school.
  
  In addition, a man in the commercial who claims to represent Pepperdine University School of Law is endorsing the false claims. Everything about the commercial is a lie, and attorneys who represent the No on 8 campaigns have sent a letter to television stations demanding that the commercials be taken off the air.
  
  “The advertisement, entitled “It’s Already Happened” in English and “Esto Ya Occurio” in Spanish, contains several statements that a Superior Court judge already has ruled are “false and misleading,” according to a letter from Remcho, Johansen & Purcell LLP in San Leandros.
  
  The advertisement at issue shows a young girl discussing with her mother a book that her teacher read in class about two princes who marry. Professor Richard Peterson of Pepperdine University, who is in the commercial, is falsely represented himself since Pepperdine has dissociated itself from Peterson and asked not to be identified in the Yes on 8 advertisement.
  
  The claim in the commercial about kids being taught about gay marriage in school stems from a court case in Massachusetts that that has been misrepresented. Parents sued the school for allowing the book to be read in school, and professor said the court “ruled parents had no right to object.”
  
  However, that’s not true. The court ruled that the parents had not asserted a federal constitutional claim – it did not rule they had no right to object in any forum.
  
  The issue was taken to the Sacramento Superior Court, which ruled that the statements in the commercials are “false and misleading.” The court’s order reads as follows:
  
  “Petitioners also challenge the proponents’ argument that teachers “will be required” to reach young children about gay marriage. The Court agrees with petitioners that this statement is false and misleading, and should be amended.
  
  “We’d like to stress that the professor does not represent a Pepperdine University-endorsed position, as the University does not advocate for/against political candidates or ballot propositions,” said Jerry Derloshon in a statement, spokesman for Pepperdine. “We have received confirmation that our request to have the reference to Pepperdine University deleted from the ad will be honored.”

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