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Clarification

I wanted to clarify a few things in my last post.

I am not a Democrat blaming Gay activists. I am a gay activist blaming the Democratic party.

I blame them for

1. Not framing the morals debate around Bush's lies and his sending children to fight a war for no good reason at all.

2. Not educating the masses about what gay marriage meant, why it was important, and how it was no threat to traditional marriage.

3. Not calling the gay marriage bans what they were during the campaign, a Rovian tactic to divide the country.

4. Not developing a vocabulary to talk to people about family values and morals in a way that supports democratic candidates.

Again, I say the gay marriage ban cost Kerry Ohio and possibly other states, and therefore the election, but I place the blame on the Democrats inability to frame the debate and call Bush out for what he is, not gay activists.

I hate to disagree...

With Adam, especially on a topic upon which he and I agree with most passionately on a personal level. But the issue of Gay marriage cost us this election, especially the gay marriage ban in Ohio, which brought out thousands of voters who never show up at the polls.

Now, please do not misunderstand me. I am as pro-gay marriage as a person could be, and I truly do not understand the threat that millions of Americans see in allowing Gay Marriage to exist. It is nothing but homophobia and faulty theological thinking, preached by fear-mongers who scare their parishioners into giving them more money.

But, the fact remains. Pushing for Gay marriage now, in what looked to all the Republican world like an organized effort to force gay marriage onto the country (San Francisco and Massachusetts happened at the same time) scared the living sh*t out of them and motivated hard core conservative nutjobs to vote. And I am not the only person who believes this. Clinton, Barney Frank, and Dianne Feinstein agree with me. The most interesting thought in the article is Barney Frank's, who said that he was willing to sacrifice national political capitol for real gain (the court case in Massachusetts) but not for political stunts which lead nowhere, and due to state law, could lead nowhere (San Francisco, whose marriages were invalidated).

I am not blaming gays or lesbians, but I am saying that gay and lesbian activists misread the temperature of the country regarding gay marriage and acted without thought as to the political ramifications. If they had been pushing for civil unions (as a starting point), this conservative outcry would not have happened.

So to summarize, the hate-mongers are wrong, dead wrong in their belief that gays should not have the rights enjoyed by every other person in the country. But, in using it as a political tool, the Republicans more accurately felt the pulse of the American heartland, and wielded the issue to great effect, and the cost is that the Democratic party is going to move more to the right on the issue, stunting the movement for years.

And so help me God, if any Democrat I can vote for advocates a gay marriage ban, I am voting Green. Or running in the primary.

Very depressed

I do not understand how so many people can be so damn blind.