Proposition 8 Aftermath

This post tries to explain what went "wrong" with the No on 8 campaign, but I can summarize it much more concisely: SSM advocates completely overestimated their public support, and while the vote was relatively close, it showed to the world SSM is basically a lost cause.

This is probably as close a vote as the SSM advocates will ever get now that they have gone out of their way to offend voters even more by attacking religious organizations, trying to silence anybody with a differing view, pilfering the arguments against racial segregation and offending key minority groups, and trying to subvert the will of the voters by attempting an end run around the new amendment by going back to the high court and losing in the process.

The final nail in the coffin of SSM in California, of course, was Gavin Newsom's antics.

This issue is simply unwinnable in the courts, in the legislatures, and in public opinion.