posted by on November 5 at 13:00 PM

OK, so Prop 8 has lost. How to turn this around? How to make this a beginning rather than an end?

Two political strategies: first, it’s not hard to get Propositions on the California ballot. So, get a repeal of Prop 8 on for 2010, when it won’t be a Presidential election year and so turnout may dip, especially among voters who were primarily coming out to support Obama, or to vote for the old-timer. This would perhaps make the demographic issues of race (African Americans opposed to gay marriage, and senior citizens ditto) irrelevant.

Second, expect the Church of Latter Day Saints to once again pour millions of dollars into defeating the repeal. If it doesn’t get repealed in 2010, get it on the ballot in 2012. 2014. 2016. However long it takes, the demographics will shift our way, and perhaps in the process we can bleed the Mormons dry. If they want to impose their religious values on the rest of us, in a secular society, let’s make them pay.