{"id":380,"date":"2008-11-05T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/why-we-lost-on-prop-8\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:58","slug":"why-we-lost-on-prop-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/why-we-lost-on-prop-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we lost on Prop 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SF Chronicle wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/11\/05\/BA3B13UM63.DTL&#038;feed=rss.news\">a bit about campaign strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThat allowed Prop. 8 opponents, worried that many voters were not enamored with the idea of same-sex marriage, to run a TV campaign that almost never mentioned gays or lesbians or showed them in an ad. Instead, the ads charged that Prop. 8 supporters wanted to take away rights from a single, unnamed group of people, which just wasn&#8217;t fair.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we&#8217;re not even willing to name ourselves as citizens, why on earth would anybody want to support us? If we&#8217;re ashamed of being LGBT, then why are our rights valuable? If this strategy <strong><em>NEVER WORKS<\/em><\/strong>, why do the mainstream campaigns keep using it?!<br \/>\nIf we want rights, then we have to be gay and proud, not weirdly lurking and hiding. Same sex couples deserve the right to marry! Stand up and say it!<br \/>\nIn other news, holy cow, Obama won. oh my god.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SF Chronicle wrote a bit about campaign strategy: That allowed Prop. 8 opponents, worried that many voters were not enamored with the idea of same-sex marriage, to run a TV campaign that almost never mentioned gays or lesbians or showed them in an ad. Instead, the ads charged that Prop. 8 supporters wanted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/why-we-lost-on-prop-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we lost on Prop 8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,76,106,10,71],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-california","tag-celesteh","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}