--- Brian Charles Dauth <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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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