Friday, November 7, 2008
Anti-Mormon Ad opposing prop. 8
Very interesting....of course some of their facts are way off.
Now that the intiative to amend the consitution has passed, opponents have taken to the streets. That is their right. They can make all the noise they want, that is what makes this country great. But they screwed up. If they did not want this to pass, they should have made the argument to the state's electorate. I think they took it for granted that the proposition would not pass, as the polls demonstrated and therefore did not make their case clearly, or perhaps they did. Either way, it is clear that the electorate is not prepared to make the leap that opponents of prop 8 believe that state was ready to do. It is interesting that the Black vote was instrumental in prop. 8's passage, as they, as a whole, do not see it as a civil rights issue.
There have been legal challanges to prop. 8. I would be very suprised if the courts overturn the voter's choice, now that this is an amendment to the constitution and it is the second time california has voted the same way.
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"I think they took it for granted that the proposition would not pass, as the polls demonstrated and therefore did not make their case clearly, or perhaps they did. Either way, it is clear that the electorate is not prepared to make the leap that opponents of prop 8 believe that state was ready to do."
No one in Equality for All took anything for granted. Their internal polling showed a tight race all the way through. Actually, both sides knew it would be a tight race. They were competing for 7% voters that both sides called the "moveable middle." So the outcome was much more about that small group than it was about the electorate as a whole. (That would have been the case if prop 8 was defeated as well.)
As for the African American community, all three of my African American co-workers ascribed what happened on tuesday to the homophobia of black men.
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