Republicans for the National Interest Chairman Michael Erickson acknowledges that the conservative community in Sonoma County, and other liberal areas of California, are more quiet in their opposition to the emergence of gay marriage, because they are "browbeaten" and fearful of retribution from their more politically correct peers. Nevertheless, in spite of a hostile, secular culture, he and others are prepared to do their part in passing an initiative statewide that would codify a traditional definition of marriage in the State Constitution. Click here for more.