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July 30, 2006
ANOTHER FINE MESS
At this point I think the LGBT community feels like those cartoon “POW! BAM! OOF!” flashes off of the old Batman series. In a series of 1-2-3 punches, courts in several states, in varying degrees of keep the balance righteousness, have set back the gay marriage cause by at least a couple of years to possibly a good decade.
As someone who never really cared much about needing to get married and whose friends never cared much either, in one respect I’m shaking my head in disappointment that a small percentage of LGBT members have made this cause, of all causes, the #1 cause for LGBT’s nationwide. How about we work on getting our own equal rights legislation passed first since the majority of the public are truly okay with that. Why not build our overall war strategy by succeeding at winnable battles first?
Instead, these few couples are all dead-set on wanting to raise their families under the religious setting of marriage just to spite even though fighting any religion is the most time-consuming, energy-sapping and overly-political battle one could possibly fight. Considering we can’t even get most LGBT under 30 to even vote, one would think that picking the hardest battle to fight would not be the smartest choice.
On the other hand, I feel nothing but respect for those courageous couples who have bucked all odds and criticisms and taken on the legislators, courts and anti-gay organizations and churches and pushed this topic into being one of the nation’s water-cooler topics of discussion. They will, no doubt, go into our gay history books.
Unfortunately, we’re still about a decade off from getting the majority of Americans onto our side with marriage.
Yet, fortunately, the majority of Americans are okay with us getting equal rights and, even, civil union rights.
Look, I respect the battle warriors of the gay marriage fight. I really do.
But, in every war, there’s a time to step back and reassess if you’re losing battles left and right (and we are on both sides, hell, we can’t even get our already-nominated presidential candidate of 2008, Hilary Clinton, to sign on board with the gay marriage idea.) We lost a number of these cases and it looks like there’s no end in sight.
The strategy the few powerful LGBT leaders have for our entire community isn’t working.
Don’t pull a Bush and ignore your failures in strategy.
The rest of us gay folk out here just want our equal rights. Get us that FIRST before you do anything more with the marriage stuff, okay? (That includes blowing $250,000 on pro-gay marriage ads.)
Your stubbornness is blowing it for all of us. Wake up.
Posted by Mike at July 30, 2006 04:10 PM
