Will South Dakota start to turn the tide on marriage amendments?

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We met Jon Hoadley of South Dakotans Against Discrimination a few days ago at an Equality California event. SDAD is the statewide organization fighting South Dakota's anti-gay marriage amendment. Hoadley is bright and coherent, and he makes a compelling case for why South Dakota's marriage amendment can be defeated. We're not sold on the odds -- this is South Dakota that we're talking about, after all -- but after hearing Hoadley's plans for the campaign, we are wondering if the South Dakota amendment at least will pass by a substantially smaller margin this year than such measures did elsewhere in 2004.

Hoadley is also a member of the National Stonewall Democrats board of directors. Given his talents, and the dearth of the same among many of his colleagues (NSD largely has uncompetitive board races, and many board slots get filled by singularly unqualified people), we figure either he'll move on to something bigger, or he'll wind up running the place one day.