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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyNovember 26th, 2008
Leaders of the No on 8 campaign held a widely-publicized virtual town hall last night to address criticisms of their campaign, including charges of incompetence and lost opportunities. Unfortunately, I have no idea how the leaders of No on 8 addressed those charges because their virtual town hall ONLY WORKED ON WINDOWS MACHINES!
Nearly a quarter of all visitors to Box Turtle Bulletin are Mac users, as is this humble scribe. So are Andy Towle and Jeremy Hooper. Fifteen minutes after the meeting started, organizers belatedly gave a phone number for Mac users, but that was after most had already left in disgust. Queerty was able to phone in twenty minutes after the meeting started.
A forum that was intended to dispel the idea that the No on 8 campaign missed too many opportunities before the election missed a HUGE one after the election. It’s incredible that this professional leadership could be so clueless. They couldn’t get a decent virtual townhall meeting deployed, which really isn’t that hard to do. Meanwhile, Amy Balliett used the power of social networking to set up Join the Impact, mobilizing a nationwide protest in less than a week. She was also supposed to be part of the panel, but was MIA. I wonder, is she a Mac user as well?
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elaygee
November 26th, 2008
A pox on Mac users.
rusty
November 26th, 2008
from the Salt Lake City Tribune:
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_11044660?source=rss
In some minds, the so-called “Mormon moment” heralded at the start of 2008 has stopped short. Just 10 months after the death of LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley, who spent nearly 70 years burnishing his church’s public image, goodwill toward Mormonism that culminated during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games seems to have faded in a haze of misunderstanding and outright hostility.
Mean-spirited critiques of Mormonism during Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaign were followed by persistent news-media reports linking Latter-day Saints to the FLDS polygamous sect raided by Texas authorities. Now, angry opponents of Proposition 8 are demonstrating at Mormon temples, accusing the church of being anti-gay.
Both sides made some mistakes.
The folk who are quietly sitting back in the corner of the room are the original instigators including Kern and the YES on 8 team and the original monies from the team who kicked David Benkof off the GAYS DEFEND MARRIAGE bandwagon.
I posted a while back that the MOs were working with the YES on 8 folk for political and social spin. NOW, the MO’s are the primary target. Very careful plan by the original evil forces out of Arizona to use the MO’s as the tactical allies and the funding source to complete the campaign. It is also worth noting that the incompetence of the NO on 8 also shares the responsibility.
BUT again, the Silver Lining is a very energized GLBT community, on a national level.
Ephilei
November 26th, 2008
Now that you mention it, it doesn’t surprise me at all for queer people to use Macs more than average.
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