Reply #41: Political strategy can be used in the service of civil rights. [View All]

[pnwmom]

Or we can shoot ourselves in the foot.

I think we might have come further, faster, if the MA decision had not been timed as it was. I think we lost a lot of ground in the 2004 elections.

I don't think the new decision has to have the same negative impact. But I wish those 2 NJ legislators had waited for two WEEKS to introduce their new marriage bill. When the Menendez race is so close, why do anything to unnecessarily drive more conservatives to the polls? (And yes, I know, the argument is that there are no fundies in NJ. Maybe not, but there are plenty of conservative Catholics, and I'd like them all to stay home.)