[lbo-talk] Re: BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Judge declares Pledge unconstitutional

Brian Charles Dauth magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Thu Sep 15 05:00:59 PDT 2005


Dear List:

Michael wrtes:


> Brian, I don't think that you will win via the
courts either.

But we have. We won in Massachusetts. And havng won the right, and people having lived with same-sex marriage without major disruption for a year, has defanged the effort to have it banned.

No legistlature is going to take up this issue without outside prompting. In California it took a mayor to open the door. Now it is up to the courts, since the the legistlature cannot override the executive's veto (so much for doing it through the legistlature).


> As it is, the right will just use your plight to
divide other people.

That should only serve to unite the left even more. The only people that the right will attract are those leftists who are not left in the first place.

What use does the left have for homophobes?


> Maybe I am wrong. I hope so.

It would be nice to do it through the legistlature, but heterosexual privilege and oppression is just too strong.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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