Knowing Our Enemy: A Closer Look at the Yes on 8 Lobby
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
January 25, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/knowing_our_enemy_facts_about_the_yes_on.phpIn war, it's the basic axiom that you can't win if you don't know your enemy. Clearly, we who opposed Prop 8 don't know our enemy well enough. If we had, we could have gotten Prop 8 defeated. And the fact is, many LGBT people in California were a little overconfident because the polls looked good for us at one point. They also trusted too much in California's reputation as "liberal," without taking into account the powerful conservative streak in our state. So they were shocked and distressed when the Prop 8 voting results came in.
With Barack Obama now in office, and the Equality Summit about to take place in L.A. on January 24, a firestorm of finger-pointing is still going on. The Mormon Church is being blamed, because of their high visibility in the Yes on 8 campaign. Some LGBT people are bent on determining what people on our side didn't do a good enough job of fighting 8. But the fact is -- our enemy is way bigger, and more complex, than just the Mormons.
