Center for American Progress: “An analysis of the battle over same-sex adoption in Arkansas points out the importance of several key factors necessary for success. These factors include:
Early mobilization
Statewide grassroots outreach
Alliances between faith and advocacy groups
Rapid response to conservative scare tactics
Faith-based messages targeted to particular faith communities with messengers from those communities
But perhaps the most important factor we found is the need to build strong partnerships among faith communities and advocacy groups—ones that can create effective faith-based messaging. Such efforts should be undertaken not for their strategic value but because it is the right thing to do.” (Full Report)
