Prop 8 bombshell: Take that, Dan Savage, it WAS the ads!
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Score yet another point in the column for not being racist. What is that, 93,000,000 points by now? Despite some folks’ best efforts to pin Prop 8 on the straight black community or Fresno or […]
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In all honesty, their messaging about “teaching homosexuality in schools” was just too effective. If we want to mount a campaign to legalize marriage in a state like Washington that has a ballot initiative process, we need to be sure we have a strong counter to that “they’re going to teach teh ghey in school” argument. End of story.
Another chance to smack Dan Savage for you guys! I wish he had a show on HLN or MSNBC to rouse the rabble & take on the right wing talking assholes. He does get glbtq issues out there, doesn’t he?
There are certain things I just can’t compromise on. One of them is racism. I would rather Dan Savage not be a spokesman for me until he apologizes for his post prop-8 hate spewing.
Why is Dan in the headline and then nothing in the body of the blog about him? What’s the connection?
I also blogged about the Prop 8 Report- and included the video from the report author- I think everyone should give it a view-
https://www.feastoffun.com/videos/2010/08/02/video-the-prop-8-report/
It seemed the biggest take away is that people feel somehow that letting there kids know that gay is ok is will somehow make them gay.
Here’s a thoughtful article
Race And Gay Marriage In Perspective
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/race-and-gay-marriage-in-perspective/60837/
https://www.feastoffun.com/podcast/2008/11/18/fof-882-rev-straight-talks-about-prop-8-111808/
So we were right all along. Listen to our interview with the Rev. Charles Straight: “FOF #882 – Rev. Straight Talks About Prop. 8” done in November of 2008.
the campaign’s internal polling always had our side losing so not sure if those 687,000 actually moved or were just more accurately polled.
at a town hall i attended in SF i learned that not only were those we lost white democrats, but they were overwhelmingly female. with abortion parental notification defeated on the same ballot as prop 8 that told me that a young mother is OK with her not knowing her daughter is having an abortion but is NOT ok with same sex marriage. you would think that among our strongest supporters would be pro-choice white women. WRONG.