<em>In short, address those who <strong>voted</strong> Yes on 8 and quit attacking those who funded it.</em>
Oscar, the majority of those people are <em>sitting in those churches</em>. Not just the he LDS, but the Roman Catholic, the Evangelical, Muslim etc. etc. (with the exception of the vast majority of Jewish people) And it all still boils down to the bible/koran/book of mormon/etc. If "the church" would stop perpetuating the myth that homosexuality is an abomination, and stop interfering with MY LIFE, I would welcome them to do whatever else it is they do. I was never concerned with Mormons or Catholics before this...as I said before, it was none of my business what people did religiously. Until now. If people consider me a "left-wing kook" for standing up for my rights, so be it.
So call me pig-headed all you like. I hear what you say but am unsure what group you think we've left untapped in our quest for equality. Here is a sample of who we had aligned with. Am I missing anything?
<em>On November 15, 2008, five civil rights groups asked the California Supreme Court to annul Proposition 8 on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups.[151] The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, California State Conference of the NAACP, and Equal Justice Society petitioned the state Supreme Court to issue a stay of Proposition 8.</em>
I'm standing by my ascertation that the group we need to concentrate most is religious people. As you all have mentioned, it's not going to work. Well, we're still going to try. What have we got to lose ? Wait.... more rights! (<strong>Yes, the orginal petition these Yes people tried to get on the ballot sought to remove our domestic partner benefits as well). </strong>
<em>The statistical trends from the CNN exit poll of 2,240 voters suggested that an array of voters came out both in opposition to and in support of Proposition 8, with no single demographic group making up all of either the Yes or No vote. These demographic trends were published in the media, including the following:</em>
<em>The following list comprises a detailed, though not exhaustive, account of the demographics voting Yes on Prop. 8 from the CNN exit poll:
<strong>84% of weekly churchgoers</strong> ? (32% of those polled);[note 1]
82% of Republicans ? (29% of those polled);[note 2][note 3]
81% of white evangelicals ? (17% of those polled);
70% of African Americans ? (10% of those polled);[note 4][note 5]
68% of voters married with children (31% of those polled);
65% of all Protestants - (43% of those polled);
65% of white Protestants ? (29% of those polled);
64% of voters with children in household ? (40% of those polled);
64% of Catholics ? (30% of electorate);
61% of age 65 and over ? (15% of those polled);
60% of married people ? (62% of those polled);[note 6]
59% of suburban dwellers ? (51% of those polled);
58% of non-college graduates ? (50% of those polled);
56% of union households - (25% of those polled);
53% of Latinos ? (18% of those polled);
51% of white men ? (31% of those polled).
Polls showed that gender and income differences shared virtually no correlation with the vote</em>
Wikipedia has a wonderful unbiased summary of the whole Prop 8 battle <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)">HERE.</a>