Reply #27: But it is actually the well-off (mostly white) religious folks who organized against us. [View All]

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Statistically, solid working class earners and poor earners were more against bigotry than for it. I think that the hope here that it is "working class whites" (a term often assumed to mean ignorant and uneducated) are simply uneducated and that a widespread campaign of LGBT education will help bring people around to accepting our equality.

I think that some bigotry is based on ignorance and lack of education and of course it is a good idea to continue to educate the public. However, the people most likely to vote against us were upper middle-class and upper class whites. I think it can't be ignored that many of those who hate us are socially empowered sadists who enjoy the idea of being at the top of a caste system. It's important that we don't forget this, lest we constantly berate ourselves for "not getting our message out." I've met plenty of joe six packs in my life before Brokeback Mountain or MILK (and maybe you have too) who would've voted No on 8 in a heartbeat because they intuitively would know how wrong it is.