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Although Equality California announced putting support a ballot measure to strike down Prop 8, another group, The Courage Campaign, said today they are shooting for 2010 and just raised $135,000 in the last two days--an amazing amount for August fundraising in an off-year during this economy--for research. Chatter among some within the anti-Prop 8 movement has the house divided.
“We are not going to let the calendar dictate people’s rights,” said the the Courage Campaign's founder, Rick Jacobs, to the New York Times today. “As of now, we are moving forward for 2010.”
Despite EQCA's 2012 proposed date, if Courage gets a spot on the 2010 ballot, they will support it. “This is our recommendation for the best way to do it,” said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, in the OC Register about the 2012 date. “(But) we’re committed to working with everyone. If they can raise the money and get it on the ballot, obviously we’ll support it. … If something qualifies for the ballot, large donors will want to see a strategy and a path to victory and if that’s there, they’ll support it.”
Leading Prop 8 Proponent Ron Prentice of Protect Marriage feels either of the two date decisions are losing endeavors. “Notwithstanding the decision by EQCA to shift focus to a 2012 election, which they readily admit is a crass political decision, they will lose then just as surely as they would in 2010 or any other year. The people have spoken twice on this issue, both times reaffirming traditional marriage. If asked to do so, they will indeed vote again to protect traditional marriage.”
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I agree that 2010 is the right time to do it, and then again in 2012 if it's needed. Every time there's the opportunity, it should be on the ballot until the fight is won. Opponents of gay marriage don't wait, they hammer and hammer until they get their way. Staying on the ballots until we win is the only way to stay visible & keep momentum going.
Waiting 3 years is a total waste of time.
The people have already voted on this. The majority of California citizens voted down Prop 8.
Everyone needs to give it a rest, at least for a while.
I disagree.
The general public grows more and more tolerant daily. The only reason Prop 8 won last election is because the looney fundy faction sucessfully lied their asses off, and a majority of California voters bought it. (I still wonder how Christian fundies square the lying thing with god, I thought that was a sin.)
No, now is the time to stay on it. We will eventually win this right for gay and lesbian people because it's the right thing to do.
How many times do we have to keep pointing out that the conservative Christians lied through their teeth about the consequences of not passing Prop 8, and in many cases violated their tax exempt status to encourage action.
If these churches hadn't been allowed to lie, and if their tax exempt status had been challenged like liberal churches who opposed the war had been, then Prop H8 probably wouldn't have passed. Amazing what happens when you get to mis inform the public without consequences.
Well, with the noise machine parrots, you have to tell them many,many times, and still the facts that fail to support their dogma are unfortunately discarded.
Yeah, if only those gosh durn civil rights activists of the 60's should have just waited as well.
When there is injustice, you make noise about it, that is the true definition of Liberty, the right to speak truth to power. Apart from how the unfair and imbalanced sources try and snake oil you, America was not founded on the principles of theocracy and intolerance.