No On 8: "Don't Say 'Gay'"

I have long despaired of the Human Rights Campaign approach to gay politics. They don't get it; they never have; they never will. That goes for state organizations staffed and run by people with the same mentality. A reader writes:

I worked for both the No on 8 campaign and the Obama campaign this year and cannot tell you how far apart those two were in style and substance.  One was top down, the other bottom up.  Ironically, it was the presidential campaign that was the grassroots model, not the state-level proposition campaign. As soon as I started working for the No on 8 campaign I was amazed at the level of scripting: "don't say 'civil rights,' don't say 'constitution,' don't say 'gay.'" I couldn't believe it.

  One of the most brilliant things about the Obama campaign was that they didn't expect callers and canvassers to be policy wonks.  They just said "tell your story, let people know why you're voting for him.  Connect with people."  I can't help but feel at this point that if the gloves were taken off we could've helped people get a grip on the real issues at stake here, which I happen to think is a matter of soiling the state constitution.

What was even more confounding was the No on 8 campaign's decision to stay away form polling places at churches and schools.  First of all, most polling places are at churches and schools, and second, that mentality buys right into the Yes on 8 brainwashing campaign that same sex marriage is going to corrupt our morals and our children.  This idiocy was obvious to everyone that I worked with on the campaign.  What was going on with the leadership upstairs?!!!

It's the Clinton-Democratic-Establishment approach. It never works. But they will never change.