Fear, Not Hate

A shrewd analysis of why Prop 8 passed in 2008: the swing voters were not African-Americans but parents with kids under 18 at home:

The Yes on 8 campaign targeted parents in its TV ads. "Mom! Guess
what I learned in school today!" were the cheery-frightening first words
of the supporters' most-broadcast ad.

They emerged from the mouth of a
young girl who had supposedly just learned that she could marry a
when she grew up.

Among the array of untrue ideas that parents could easily...