Dallas City Council Spent Its Morning Talking About Gay Marriage, but no vote taken
LGBT activists and allies showed up early at City Hall this morning, all wearing red. One by one, they stepped to the microphone and chastised the Dallas City Council for its epic wuss-out on a marriage and workplace equality resolution.
"Leadership requires action, not just words," said Resource Center Dallas' Cece Cox. "To say that one supports LGBT equality ... then to take no action on these issues, that is not leadership. It is passivity. It is nothing."
Next at the microphone was activist CD Kirven, whose given name, we learned, is Chastity. "What seems to be forgotten by the council that civil rights battles have people that are wounded that are invisible to the leadership," she said. "We have children. We have jobs. We have mothers. We have friends." Those sentiments were echoed by several others.
The resolution they were speaking on was, of course, not on this morning's agenda. It was going to be up 'til late May, when Delia Jasso performed her impressively vindictive U-Turn and Mayor Mike Rawlings decided that, even though he's a huge fan of letting gay people marry, discussing it would be a waste of the council's time.
More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/06/the_city_council_spent_its_mor.php .
