I Told You So
Well, I said it before, and nearly every respondent disagreed with me, most of them quite vehemently. But clearly last night's setback to gay marriage in Maine, the latest in a long series of setbacks, proves what I've been saying all along: that the gay marriage movement needs to be more tactical and less belligerent. That the "guns blazing and in your face" approaches are having the exact opposite effect, galvanizing public sentiment against us.
We live in a democracy. That means, by and large, that if the public wants something badly enough, they will get it. Dictatorial rule by fiat went out with the last Administration and we all hope that it never returns.
The public writes to, calls, and influences Representatives and Senators.
The public supports ballot initiatives and activist campaigns.
The public are the ones that ban gay marriage.
And to everyone who mocked me when I tried to stress how important public sentiment is to this movement, and how the harder we push the more ground we will lose, well I hope now it's clear that I really do know what I'm talking about.
And yes, I'm being an asshole by pointing this out. But I'm still bitter over how I was abused the last time I tried to civilly discuss this, even to the point of separate threads personally attacking me. So if one does not recognize and admit one's mistakes, one will never learn from them.
We live in a democracy. That means, by and large, that if the public wants something badly enough, they will get it. Dictatorial rule by fiat went out with the last Administration and we all hope that it never returns.
The public writes to, calls, and influences Representatives and Senators.
The public supports ballot initiatives and activist campaigns.
The public are the ones that ban gay marriage.
And to everyone who mocked me when I tried to stress how important public sentiment is to this movement, and how the harder we push the more ground we will lose, well I hope now it's clear that I really do know what I'm talking about.
And yes, I'm being an asshole by pointing this out. But I'm still bitter over how I was abused the last time I tried to civilly discuss this, even to the point of separate threads personally attacking me. So if one does not recognize and admit one's mistakes, one will never learn from them.