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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMay 6th, 2009
Danny Westneat, a Seattle Times columnist, discussed with Joe Fuiten, a family values activist, about whether conservatives would expend effort to reverse Washington’s latest Domestic Partnership upgrade.
“It’s dumb to try to repeal it,” he said. “We’d lose. We’d set our whole cause back.”
On his website, Fuiten illustrates that the thinking in conservative circles is to leave it alone and save political capital for fighting against full marriage inclusion.
I have had conversations with heads of denominations, pastors, members of the House and Senate, political consultants, attorneys who have represented us on these issues in the past, lobbyists, Republican party leaders and staff, leaders of political organizations, leaders of pro-life organizations, educators, current and former candidates for various offices, Catholics and Protestants, funders, a conservative talk show host, activists, and citizens.
I have tried to cast a wide net to get a sense for the attitude of the people who would need to make the Referendum happen. From that a pretty consistent message has emerged.
Out of that group, six people have said, yes, we should definitely run a Referendum, three people offered conditional support, and over 25 people said, “DO NOT RUN a REFERENDUM”.
Fuiten noted that the support for the referendum was found primarily in Russians and Russian language speakers.
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Andrew
May 6th, 2009
So, the west coast has a set of conservative Russians? Between this and the ARC incident that’s kind of interesting.
Andrew
May 6th, 2009
I should rephrase that. Not the ARC incident. The student association from American River College who was recently voted out. And some where none too happy about.
Algy
May 6th, 2009
@ Andrew
Yeah. Northern California has a very large Eastern European Population. The first Serbian Orthodox Church in the entire country was founded in a tiny town in Jackson, a very rural part of Northern CA.
I’m from right outside of Jackson and the Serbs are great. But Sacramento has this wave of violent Russian Immigrants. Two years ago a group of them killed a man named Sartender Singh. IT’s an incredibly dangerous situation and not enough is being done to stop it.
Here’s a link to an SPL story on it:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=809
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