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Title: Proposition 8 postmortem - from a senior volunteer
Post by: Hazumu on January 01, 2009, 12:05:50 AM
Post by: Hazumu on January 01, 2009, 12:05:50 AM
by hahne
Sun Dec 28, 2008 at 09:22:45 AM PST
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Sun Dec 28, 2008 at 09:22:45 AM PST
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QuoteDespite the enormous pain of the passage of proposition 8, the good news is that despite a badly botched no-on-8 campaign, support for marriage equality in California has shifted from about 40% to about 50% in just 8 years. The "tipping point" years that we're in right now are particularly painful, because it's right when you're just under 50% support that your opposition throws the most money, the most resources, the most of everything at you. They know that it's endgame now -- they have to pull out all the stops now to preserve hetero privilege before public opinion shifts permanently in favor of LGBT equality on yet another front.