1. They hemmed and hawed and procrastinated and time ran out to get anything put together for 2010, and they still aren’t very organized, so they were forced to wait. This was clearly apparent in their town hall meetings.
2. They want to be the big fish in this pond and claim all the credit, and their leadership has shown a lack of interest in outside inputs or anything that might take away from them claiming that credit. This too was apparent in their town hall meetings in that they were more interested in trying to get their organizing act together and flatly have refused to receive inputs on actual ballot language, which they so desperately need. They are trying to organize people to support a repeal without actually indicating what the repeal actually is. Rather than support the issue, they are playing political football.

If anything dooms the 2010 effort, it’s simply the court cases, not EQCA. At their rate it’s easy to see why the anti-Prop-8 fight was so unorganized, and the leadership hasn’t yet figured out how to do better. There are pockets of grassroots that are, but they are limited.

Had he had such a clue, he would know that are two–count em, two!–initiatives in circulation right now in CA to repeal Prop 8, both by the group “Yes! on Equality” and tied to Courage CA that would do exactly that. See http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm. Yes, the initiatives are identical, but the point is that Mr. Alexander not doing his homework doesn’t bode well for him, even if he shed his uber-socialist political philosophy in favor of something workable.

Leave out right marriage out of the government. Be able to designate your next year’s life partner with or with out formal marriage or with or with out church interference. Of course this is in the broad general regards, children [birth, foster, informal, adopted] change the whole scope!

Not on any typical day. But they can be seduced away from logic [like the quite reasonable 1993 Hilary Rodham Clinton Health Care Plan and the SUCCESSFUL scare tactics around the kitchen table] by one in a hundred improbabilities and paper thin ‘what ifs’!

And, in this same time sequence, folks like Doctor Donald Grundmann are ignoring convicted Kiddie Porn King Wade Sanders [California Lt. Governor's office 'abused veterans advocate' ] while searching high and low for those non existent roving bands of homo sexual recruit agents.

The Proposition Eight folks could have dealt with real world events and lost or pull out every thing [including the proverbial kitchen sink] from the land of imagination.

I am not a fan of Prop. 8 and support the disestablishment of marriage as a government institution, but doesn’t the turnout issue pose a potential issue to the moral legitimacy of any repeal in 2010 from a popular sovereignty standpoint? Almost certainly, the vote will again be close, and the turnout will be lower than in 2008. So a smaller group of people may overturn the expressed “will” of a much larger 2008 electorate.

Derp derp the gays are gonna teach our kids to be gay!