To Win Marriage Equality, We Need a Divorce (Sherry Wolf)

[billyoc]

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Since the birth of the modern LGBT movement out of the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the Democrats before Obama controlled the White House for 12 years under Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. For a lot of that time, both houses of Congress were controlled by Democrats as well.

But during this time, as well as under Republican administrations, the Democrats have been opportunist at best, and hostile at worst.

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Today, there's something profoundly disturbing about Barack Obama, the son of a Black man and a white woman, using the racial segregationists' call for "states' rights" when it comes to same-sex marriage.

All the more so since the California court -- in initially overturning the state's gay marriage ban in May 2008 and legalizing same-sex marriage until the passage of Prop 8 -- cited as precedent the 62-year-old decision that overturned anti-miscegenation laws and opened the door for Obama's own parents' legal union.

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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/wolf260509.html