And the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is also opposing Prop 8, very publicly. Two generations also the LAPD loved the harass and lock up gay people.

But given that fact tha McCain and Obama will not shut up about their superstition driven opposistion to same sex marriage it’s not enough. The election is too close. Were still at 51% in the Field Poll.

The fight against Prop. 8 is without question the most critical issue for GLBT communities this year.

It’s too close because there are always people who lie to pollsters but revert into Mr. Hyde in the voting booth. It happens to African American candidates all the time and goes by the name of the Bradley effect. We have to pull much further ahead to take care of the stealth bigot vote.

Another major problem is that precious little effort is being made to reach out to women, feminists, African-Americans, Latinos and Filipinos. They’re potential allies who comprise large segments of the states population. The failure to invest substanital efforts in winning their support was not the only reason we lost the battle for same sex marriage on the last go-around but it was a big contributing factor.

It’s a given that fundamentalist preachers, pastors and priests in some of those communities are going to be doing all they can to deny us our rights and if we abandon the field to them we do so at our peril. If we lose we lose big time and on a national scale. The bigots get a big boost. It’s critical that we win and our energy and resources shouldn’t be diverted and wasted campaiging for either of the pigheaded opponents of same sex marriage, Obama and McCain.

McCain is a rancid right-winger with the Rev. Pat Robertson attached at the hip.

Obama is Bill Clinton (DOMA, DADT, NAFTA) in drag with the Rev. Donnie McClurkin attached at the hip.