the queers shall lead us from the darkness

Well, I had been working on a little, then not so little, post on Glenn Maxey and No Nonsense in November , but SHG beat me to it (well, we saw him over a week ago, so it's not like this is new...so no real race there!).

I have been one of the masses of envelope-stuffers, sign-placers, etc. for presidential campaigns, but this was the first grass-roots meeting I had been to in 15 years, and it was really interesting. The words used, the way he got people interested and in agreement using logic and drawing them in was fascinating. Yet I was frightened as I sat there thinking about how similar meetings go for the "other" side, specifically fundi-Christians. *shudder* No wonder things have gotten to the sad state they are in.

What I wanted to point out, though, is that Maxey is craftily using this as a way to help re-jump start the TX Democratic Party: By getting NNN to work and get contact lists organized and networks in place for the next set of fights, he sees the gay community in TX as potentially being a significant aid in the next round of elections next year and then for 2008. With TX-Dems a bit scattered and confused, they will hopefully take notice and leverage off it. At least, that is how he sees it. In fact, he put it as TX Dem party leadership hopefully sitting up and taking notice with a feeling of "the queers shall lead us from the darkness". Now that is what I found most interesting and hopeful out of what Maxey had to say. A ray of light, so to speak (groan, here come the strains of Madonna).