Gay Democrats: Donkeys or Jackasses?
Outright Libertarians has an encyclopedic post documenting why gay Democrats are, to use my term, the political equivalent of packing peanuts:
We gritted our teeth and suffered through a 2000 presidential campaign where Al Gore was so unfamiliar with gay issues that he proclaimed support for “civic unions” (not civil unions), and who announced that he supported DOMA and federal recognition of same-sex relationships (despite the fact that the two positions are mutually exclusive).
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This year, Nancy Pelosi kicked off her “historic victory” by announcing that Democrats would preserve the military’s anti-gay ban. She followed up that announcement with a decision to strike ALL gay-rights-related votes from the agenda … curtly informing rare gay-supportive Democrats that redressing a decade of anti-gay laws was not of even remote importance.
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Democrats raised millions of dollars from gay Americans but spent, by one account, less than $20,000 in the last election cycle to fight anti-gay state constitutional amendments.
That’s just a sample — read the whole thing.
Keep all that in mind as the 2008 campaign proceeds. Keep in mind that there is still no bill, not even buried in committee, in the Senate to repeal either federal DOMA or DADT — meaning of course that neither Senators Clinton nor Obama are willing to offer one (regarding DADT, recall also that Clinton is on the Armed Services Committee). Keep in mind that John Edwards considered it “a jump” for him to contemplate supporting gay marriage and that the word “gay” appears nowhere on his official campaign website. And so on…
It would be nice if there were a reason to support Democrats other than “They’re not Republicans.” Maybe someday…
For now, the best way to undermine the two-party system is by not being part of it.
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