I don't blame "No on 1" for what they did, because responding to the "gay marriage in schools" ad was better than letting it fester. But next time, there needs to be a serious discussion about how to address the inevitable attacks that our hateful and vicious opponents clearly have no shame hurling at us. A good friend - who is a former teacher - sent the following e-mail yesterday, offering me some helpful advice for the future:

We have to hit the school issue hard and unrelentingly. It isn't enough to just run the kind of ads they ran in Maine to address that issue. We need to actively promote LGBT education in the schools. Talk about Lawrence King, the high suicide rate, and really press the point that the kind of 'education' we have in the schools now is killing LGBT kids. We also need to trumpet the extensive research that shows that kids of LGBT parents turn out fine and the obvious fact that learning that being LGBT is okay won't make you gay.