aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Stategic error?

Stephen Miller quotes this from Dale Carpenter on the strategy to defeat the anti-gay marriage amendment in Texas:

In a conservative Republican state, here’s the coalition [activists] have put together to defeat the amendment: Among the eight “featured sponsors” of the anti-amendment campaign are three partisan Democratic groups, two leftist groups that promote “social justice,” one statewide gay group that barely pretends to work with Republicans, and another that was founded by the daughter of former Democratic governor Ann Richards. This is, to be sure, a “coalition.” It is a coalition of losers.