Learning from mistakes

An Equality Summit convened to figure out what went wrong with the battle over the Calif. marriage ban. A PDF of the summary is here. Some of the things they concluded:

* Clergy supporting gays were not used well and not used enough.

* Leaders of color were not used enough. There wasn't much effort to reach blacks, Hispanics, and Asians or include their leaders in the effort.

* The campaign was too impersonal and used very few gay stories.

* The campaign was too invisible to attract and use volunteers.

* Supporters in the Calif. Central Valley felt isolated and ignored by the campaign that wrote off their area. This was in spite every newspaper in the area supported the gay side.

* We can now share stories of how the ban has affected actual people and families.

* We can learn lessons from how Obama organized his campaign.