“I would prefer people channeled that energy (from the Prop 8 protests) whether it’s for marriage equality or employment nondiscrimination – into mobilizing and trying to persuade those who disagree with them. Notice that the NRA never marches. This is my continual debate with people in the gay community, many of whom want to hold rallies instead of doing political lobbying.”

“Prop 8 should have been defeated – two months before the election, it was down 17 points in the polls – but the gay-rights groups that tried to stop it ran a lousy campaign. According to veteran political observers, the No on Prop 8 effort was slow to raise money, ran weak and confusing ads, and failed to put together a grass-roots operation to get out the vote.”

“People from both inside and outside the campaign are pointing fingers at the small clique of California LGBT leaders who directed the (No on 8) campaign – Lorri Jean of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Geoff Kors of Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ Kate Kendell, Delores Jacobs of the San Diego LGBT Community Center, and Michael Fleming of the David Bohnett Foundation – charging that their insularity and inexperience with the humongous task at hand turned what should have been a difficult victory into a painful loss.”