delenda est...
Posted on 05/27/2009 7:37:08 AM PDT by SmithL
The next same-sex marriage battle in California will be fought over a referendum aimed at the November 2010 ballot that is likely to include door-to-door campaigning in Bible-belt areas of the state that backed Proposition 8.
The battlegrounds will not be in San Francisco or West Hollywood but in places like Fresno, the geographic center of California where proponents of same-sex marriage will hold their first high-profile event Saturday.
Starting with a 14.5-mile march in Selma - the Fresno County town with the same name as the Alabama city iconic to the 1960s civil rights movement - and ending with a rally in Fresno, the event foreshadows efforts by same-sex marriage advocates to branch into middle America-like regions of interior California where opponents of Prop. 8 did little outreach last year.
Organizers hope to reach Latinos, faith communities and African Americans, constituencies into which they previously failed to make in-roads. Their approach aims to blend slain San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's put-a-human-face-on-the-issue activism with Barack Obama's neighbor-to-neighbor organizing.
Same-sex marriage opponents will hold an event in Fresno on Sunday to celebrate Tuesday's state Supreme Court decision upholding voters' November approval of Prop. 8 and to prepare for the next battle.
Yes on 8 Chairman Ron Prentice said Tuesday that Prop. 8 supporters are planning a statewide, multimillion-dollar campaign supporting marriage between men and women only.
"We're enjoying today," Prentice said after the court's ruling. "We'll be ready for a new campaign if a new campaign comes."
Meanwhile, same-sex marriage advocates are changing some of the tactics they were criticized for last year.
More gay couples are being featured in TV ads that began airing this month. Shortly after the court's decision Tuesday, the Courage Campaign, a 700,000-member online hub, released a TV commercial in English and Spanish featuring same-sex couples....
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A big homosexual invasion of Selma, California doesn’t seem like a way to endear themselves to that community. It would seem more of a punishment. “We’ll show you, you up tight jerks.”
This could backfire massively. I don’t like it and I don’t even live there.
Ignore them, They are just a bunch of TEABAGGERS....
If I were black I would be miffed at the comparison. First of all, gays never went through the institutional bigotry (I am talking after slavery) that blacks have. I am not saying they never experienced any discrimination. Stonewall Riot had a basic point in that gays weren’t allowed freedom of association because they were considered sodomites (which was a crime even if it were consensual). But gay folks by and large are well educated and make above normal salaries. There are a lot of gays and lesbians who you’d never know they were gay/lesbian unless they said so. The same can’t be said for racial minorities.
Do these queers know what the word “no” means?
Funny - ain’t it? To quote supporters of the Boy King - “You lost. Get over it.”
Not guilty !
This is a big pipe dream from the Chronically Wrongicle. Selma is not changing their dearly held principles because of a march.
Racism was wrong and the people who did it, knew it. Opposing gay marriage is right, and we know it. Big difference.
I don’t think they’ll get much support from Fresno, other than the Peace Fresno and college lib groups.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Oh no! Not the raisin capital of the world!
i think the next referendum should covert those 18k homosexual based marriages back into civil unions. The california supreme court is counting on the feds to overturn them.
delenda est...
This is my whole take on the knocking on doors plan. Who’s to say that they are not going to be taking down addresses of those who support prop 8? Will they notice rotten eggs on their doorstep next week? Or any other form of vandalism? Something to think about. I advise people not to give any opinion and politely excuse oneself.
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