honey, you need to get your ass up off that seat, get outside and visit the real world.

who cares if they are sending post cards AT LEAST THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING other than sitting here bitching on a website.

I think its hillarious some of yall are in here attacking other gays. If we werent out marching, or even sending post cards, we would all be invisible STILL.

I can certainly understand the disappointment of prop 8 passing but church burnings is sure not the way to go.

First you will be battling every possible denomination possible and if you think the catholic and Mormon church
did some damage think of what it would be like if all 200 other denominations were fighting us also.

If even a few of do something so stupid that will convince the un commited to vote against us next time around.

True the black folks did things like that and things did change but at a terrible cost, and what they did, did not raise their standing in the public eye.

I am a Calif. native now living in Florida we had the same thing here only worse. Our prop 2 passed banning marriage but also banning civil unions too.

Be careful because there is a movement in the works to unwind the marriages (in Calif) that were left intact in Calif. That is their next move.

My Gay brothers and sisters in Calif. You have no time to waste. Do not sit idol. Start to organize with constant demonstrations every week with out letting up.

The opposition thinks this will simmer down and you will finally go away.

If you don’t keep up the demonstrations and make your cause in the headlines you will lose big time and they win.

Remember the sweekest wheel gets the grease.

Make sure the next campaign is not run by anyone from the Log Cabin Republican Party.

How anyone can be a republican and gay is beyond me, and I have heard every argument they have put up, but I have never trusted them.

I think we have a serious generation gap within the Gay community….let the young folks hit the street join them if you feel like you can get your old bones out there. Let them go….they are holding peaceful rallies and making change happen now.

I am going this Nov. 15th to the SF rally at City Hall….I think this is a great time to use the internet to re-define our movement Nationally and Globally.

• Did I donate money and time to the campaign, or did I just sit back and watch the events unfold?
• Did I leave my comfort zone and converse with people that I knew didn’t agree with my beliefs?
• Did I attend and promote “no on 8” rallies?
• Did I encourage non-voters to vote by bringing them voter registration forms and telling them how important this issue was to me personally and how its passage would impact my life?
• Did I remember to mail in my absentee ballot on time or get to my polling place before it closed, or was I just too busy to bother?
• Did I actually vote “no”? (Sadly, it has been reported to me that some of the yes voters were members of the LGBT community. Shameful, even if you yourself do not believe in marriage.)
• Am I openly gay and proud, or do I hide my lifestyle from co-workers, family and friends?
• Did I assume that everyone that is deemed a minority, a second class, or has faced oppression would automatically side with my cause and place my rights over their cultural and/or religious beliefs?
• Did I allow my straight allies to carry the burden of the load because I felt their voices were more influential than mine?

If you did little or nothing in support of the “no on 8” campaign, then you have only yourself to blame for its passage.

Besides, the “yes on 8″ campaign exposed children to more homosexual rhetoric than any of our ads did.

And white folk will not and should not bend to the will of those people of color.

If we, as individuals, allow ourselves to turn this issue into a matter of what color of skin we have . . . we have lost already. The closet awaits as the only safe escape.

I say, for myself, “Never Again!”.

Rather, the gay community must bind together regardless of the color of our skin. We must be bound together regardless of our orientation. We must become a people who will not bend to the will of those who wish to oppress us. And those who can not do so . . . or will not . . . can fight their petty race war and be left behind. They can find their own comfort in that closet.

And they can watch the rest of us strengthen and grow and, finally, be free.