Reply #3: One issue we can't back away from is

[Jella]

Gay marriage. The issue seems to really heat up around election time. I believe in my heart of hearts, that it cost us the last election. It's difficult to see an opportunity to make progress, and then have it hamper your ability to gain some power as to assist it along. With the move to have it outlawed, can it now be moved to the back burner?

It depresses me when I see the poll numbers on it, and really just as I speak with folks in day to day conversation. Do we have the energy to hold steadfast in a grass roots effort to make folks understand the indigence now, as I see it as the only way to change the ignorance now in 2/3 of the population.