So... who are they?

Can we gather signatures to ban evangelical marriage? It would be effective in that it treats them to their own poison. No matter how many mirrors we hang in their face, they are absolutely blind to their actions, and they will never change. We must treat them the same in order to go forward.

I appplaud your choice for "Blank" of the Year. This year, no other person or issue stirred up the passion that Yes on 8 did within me. I thought I was past getting so angry. It shows me that I still harbor deep resentments against those who have treated me with prejudice and hatred for so many years. I have to learn how to let go of them. I have a very optimistic feeling about 2009. I believe we will see Prop 8 struck down, and I also believe that President Obama will finally end the discrimination in the military against gays serving openly in the military. That should be one of the final levers needed to effect permanent change at the federal level, via the Supreme Court. If we can fight for freedom, then there will be no logical reason to not be granted to us.

In "honoring" these people, and the truly good folks that voted yes on 8 (not really understanding what they were voting for), I think that they will finally start to think a little bit more "outside the box".
Cultural evolution, and change, is a slow process. With our continued visability, and demands, we will make "them" progress with time, just like it has been throughout our evolutionary history.

Galvanized the community? Are you daft? What it's done is shown us that we have absolutely no leadership with any marketing skills. What it's done is shown us that we should not waste our money on organizations like EQCA, The LA Lesbian and Gay Center, or the

I believe the gay community and not only them should go against the church leaders, and when possible befriend their followers or at least not reject them or call them names. What I saw happening in Belgium (which is the 2nd country in the world to have gay marriage) is the reactions on 3 topics, 1 euthanasia 2 abortion 3 gay marriage. The Roman Catholic church being the main and most powerful force against these topics. Each time with each campaign the church lost followers, with contraception hard core believers said they had to leave the church and could not accept the pope's stand as one more kid would mean bankruptcy to them and at 40 abstinence was not an option, they were scared of burning in hell and said so, they were traumatized.
All churches are losing ground, just try to sell a Ferrari with 1890 engine under the hood.

Another one of our enemies is Barack Hussein Obama.

We know this because of his invitation for Rick Warren, the homophobic pro 8 pastor (hence fellow-enemy), to give the give the invocation at his inaugeration.

Just as we have been called to boycott the Manchester Hyatt, I call on all gays here to boycott the Obama inaugeration. Have a flight booked to DC? Cancel it. Hotel reservations there too? Cancel those as well.

Given the slap in the face this Warren invitation represents, to treat the situation any different than our of our other pro-8 boycott targets would be blatant hypocrisy.

Ah, and I see I'm not alone in pointing out pro-8 similarities, and calling for such a boycott:

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2008/12/still-waiting-for-law-profess ors-to.html

The big problem with the No on 8 campaign is that they started calling the Yes on 8 supporters bigots, homophobic, haters. All that did was inspire them to call their friends, family members and donate MORE money and get involved.

Being militant does not change people's views. Prop 8 awakened the sleeping gays after the fact. But it has also awakened the Evangelicals.

I have to say that I have been very curious about proposition 8 as a resident of California. My perspective is this - I have a younger brother who was gay for several years. He even had a consistent partner for about three years. When he expressed to my mother (single and divorced) that he might be gay when he was about 18 years old, she didn’t know how to respond. She just told him that she loved him no matter the circumstances. She called some professionals (this was in the 1980’s), and they told her to encourage him to accept his homosexuality and to become happy with who he was. She did exactly that, trying the best she knew how to help him.

Well, he lived a homosexual life for approximately 12 years (until the late 1990’s) and had several boyfriends, incuding the one very serious one I mentioned above. He still felt unfulfilled in life and sought professional help. He went to one therapist for about a year, and this guy focused on helping my brother celebrate his homosexuality. He was still not satisfied, and he went to another therapist who asked my brother if he had ever explored the soruce of his homosexuality, and he responded that he hadn’t really focused on the source. To make a very, very long story short, my brother is now a happy heterosexual individual who is married to a wonderful woman. They have two beautiful children. He looks at his homosexual years as lost years, as an era when society kept telling him to accept the facts and not try to change. It has been so rewarding for me to see him so happy and fulfilled now. I am so glad that an increasing number of therapists are willing to treat the homosexual condition despite threats and criticism.

Balster, your brother is bisexual. Just because he is married does not suddenly make him "heterosexual" it just makes him a someone that likes both sexes but is only having sex with women... for now. But I'm glad your brother is happy with who ever he chooses to be with.

Balster I've heard your ignorant, stupid story many times before. Is your brother Ted Haggard?
The last thing gays should do is marry someone straight! On the other hand, perhaps we should all marry the evangelical whack-jobs and show them how well their theories work out.

You say your brother had some serious homosexual relationships with other men and now he is a happy heterosexual.
Well let me assure you your brother was NEVER HOMOSEXUAL. He is BISEXUAL.
Your post is the lie promulgated by the religious right wing to make us believe that being gay is a choice.
Anyone who has a successful relationship with their same-sex and then has a successful with the opposite sex--HE IS A BISEXUAL!!