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I think that protest marches do not win over more converts to a cause. I think they’re only useful when a group effectively has no other option open to them.
Since gays can vote and our allies can vote I think the best method to overturning Prop. 8 is a new amendment and a registration and get out the vote drive. I think the “Yes on 8” campaign succeeded because large numbers of gays and young people did not vote.
more so if you consider the history. Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to protest at the CA Supreme Court? Oh, that’s right, the people that were mad about the original decision passed a ballot measure…
BTW, 2010 could be a good time to work on our own amendment. Have you heard of an effort to strike the language from ’06?
I think that a 2010 attempt at repeal in Colorado would be defeated 52% to 48%. I base this on the vote from 2006 and actuarial tables on mortality in different age groups. I think 2014 is the first year when the ban might be repealed here in Colorado and 2016 is a lot more sure.
it will be a long hard fought campaign, but a worthy one. I agree, that in 6 to 10 years we’ll see a repeal of that disastrous amendment pushed by the right wing fringe like James Dobson, Marilyn Musgrave and Kevin Lundberg.
As the Governator said, the GOP ‘Values’ Talk is ‘Nonsense’
Arnold may be on to something. If the GOP were to rebuild in Colorado, it might consider his wise words of wisdom (wow, did I really just say that?).
but the kinds of things he’s supported in his state would make him a raging pinko in many other states.
And here is my diary on the subject from a little while back. I’m also willing to send you my simple spreadsheet if you want to look at my assumptions.
If you don’t mind sending the spreadsheet, I would like to have a look. krisdennehy@gmail.com
And the number was far closer to 1500 during the march and 2000 during the peak of the speeches than the figures reported by the Post and Rocky.
I have to tip my hat to the Denver Police Dept though, who were consummately professional and helpful throughout the entire day. I was in pretty constant contact with DPD folks, and they were absolutely terrific all day. They deserve a lot of credit.
Andrew Sullivan has been covering The View From Your Protest with photos from across the country. While this one doesn’t actually capture a protest, it’s by far my favorite of the movement. I may not be your typical straight white male, but I believe this to be our 21st century civil rights movement and I for one won’t deny equality or happiness.
As our Declaration of Independence so clearly states:
you know, when CO actually passed a gay marriage ban?
We haven’t seen national protests like this in sometime.
There were a couple of major differences between ’06 and Prop. 8…
First, the Colorado ban wasn’t overturning legal gay marriage – it was just competing against Ref. I.
Second, there was an immense amount of funding and push by the LDS to back Prop. 8, and some of it wasn’t well accounted-for. This gives the protesters a single “thing” to rally against; the Colorado effort didn’t have the same sense of a single major backer.
…which was not the subject of Ref. I. The marriage ban was much more than the “anti-Ref. I.”
Now, whether the Colorado ban “overturned legal gay marriage” depends on whether you believed that gay marriage was protected by the CO Constitution before 2006. Some thought so. Courts hadn’t weighed in.
Colorado’s Constitution isn’t a “broad equality” construction. If someone thought they could win on a Constitutional argument, I think they would have done it before.
And yes, I understand the technical differences between the two amendments; my point was, it wasn’t overturning something that was accepted by the courts or laws as legal.