Despite the concerns, in a conference call with reporters on Monday, November 16, Henning said that if backers get their measure on the ballot, "We absolutely do feel we'll be able to reunify the community around this issue."

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights who was a member of No on 8's executive committee, said in an interview, "I want see Prop 8 repealed, and if we could repeal it tomorrow or if we could've done it last month, I would have been fully supportive of that."

However, Kendell also said that she's worried that "we have not yet done the work" necessary to win repeal "and time is bearing down on us with very little possibility that that work can happen in the deep and muscular way it needs to between now and next November."