Posted on 02/17/2009 2:44:47 AM PST by blueplum
As gay marriage supporters prepare for a noon demonstration today in Sacramento, a growing number are planning their next ballot campaign. Their new strategy: "Obamify" the gay marriage movement.
Obamification, organizers say, is more than just connecting supporters through social networking sites such as Facebook and building mile-long e-mail lists. It would involve pairing new media technology with old-fashioned, door-to-door outreach - two tactics that were not used well in the unsuccessful opposition to Proposition 8 in November, according to a report by Marriage Equality USA, an Oakland-based organization that supports gay marriage.
The strategy means ditching scripted phone-bank calls and TV commercials that Marriage Equality say "lacked heart." Instead, gay families - and their friends and sympathetic clergy - would be encouraged to get out of the state's big cities and knock on doors in places where they have little support, such as the Central Valley. It would mean allowing supporters more leeway to tell their own stories.
While gay marriage supporters wait to see whether the California Supreme Court decides in their favor, some of this new strategy will be implemented this spring.
Next month in Fresno, gay marriage supporters will learn how to tell others why gay marriage is personally important to them at the second Camp Courage, a training event hosted by the Courage Campaign ( www.couragecampaign.org), a 400,000-member online hub that supports a variety of causes. Equality Camp, a volunteer-led event that will cover some of the same training ground, will take place sometime in April in Oakland.
Online, social networking has intensified. The National Center for Lesbian Rights has commenced an online rally on Facebook to galvanize support in advance of March 5, when the California Supreme Court will hear arguments on the validity of the gay marriage ban. (The court has 90 days...
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These perverts, both of morals and law, are starting the anger me.
Don’t Reward Intolerance and Hate, Vote for 8!
The Detroit New’s homosexual columnist had an article yesterday about her hopes that the new administration will keep homosexual couples together in spite of a lack of green cards. I’d say she’s calling for a...ahem....double header—special rights for homosexuals and special rights for illegal aliens.
hmmm....does LaRaza run a matchmaking program too? :)
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