FYI

[tiger_spot]

The Human Rights Campaign has a few donors who are matching all contributions made today to the No on 8 campaign.

We just gave another $150, which I think means our names get published somewhere. Look, a visible political stand!

I am also considering volunteering for the phone banking at some point, although frankly the concept is terrifying.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

And some more added here. That's a more satisfying, and probably more effective, response to the "Yes on 8" sign in the Shoreline median I saw coming home tonight than what I was thinking of, which was adding a "Destroy families!" sign to the top of it (because it would be crass to just pull it up).

The phone banking does sound pretty terrifying, from what I've heard.

[ef2p.livejournal.com]

I've done the phone banking. It was much easier than I thought it would be. They give you scripts to follow. I actually found it was easier to call complete strangers than to call family and friends. (They started out having us call our family and friends.)

[brooksmoses]

*nods* The horror story I heard was someone who tried it and couldn't deal with the responses he got from opposing people yelling homophobias at him. (But, then, I suppose this was also a case where considering his emotional temperament it was probably clear from the get-go that this would get to him pretty easily; he was having a hard time dealing with someone leaving a "Yes on 8" card on his car.)