Maybe I'm on different mailing lists, but I received about 5 paper flyers with very slick 'no on 8' ads painting the issue as "hey, we're just normal everyday folks like you who want to marry, just like you do." One SJ Merc. columnist mentioned these too as being very classy & 'rising above the fray.'
IMO, the problem was no church outreach, but that's also a problem of legitimacy. We're not really there, we *don't* have support there, so we can't easily work within that system. Frankly, the number of "supportive ministers of all faiths and denominations" is a lot smaller than the unsupportive religious leaders & groups (or at least the 'yes on 8' religious leaders have bigger congregations).
On NPR, several black activists spoke out against the idea that 8 had any similarity to interracial marriage laws. That's a HUGE perception problem within racial minority communities & has been for decades. It's similar to the divide between women of color & white women in feminist circles.
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Date: 2008-11-11 01:06 am (UTC)IMO, the problem was no church outreach, but that's also a problem of legitimacy. We're not really there, we *don't* have support there, so we can't easily work within that system. Frankly, the number of "supportive ministers of all faiths and denominations" is a lot smaller than the unsupportive religious leaders & groups (or at least the 'yes on 8' religious leaders have bigger congregations).
On NPR, several black activists spoke out against the idea that 8 had any similarity to interracial marriage laws. That's a HUGE perception problem within racial minority communities & has been for decades. It's similar to the divide between women of color & white women in feminist circles.
The problems are deeper than just one campaign.