Daily Pundit » New direction for AIDS research.
I think this is great news. Frankly, while gay marriage as an issue is a good litmus test of bigotry, for gays themselves there are far more important issues - a cure for HIV, and the addition of gays to the over-arching civil rights acts and their protections, as well as an end to “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in the military spring immediately to mind.
Gay marriage was a battle imposed by gay leadership as a tactic, it was a horrible move from a strategic point of view, and has resulted in a string of utter defeats without a single popular vote victory, not to mention galvanizing opposition that would have been better left to slumber. Eventually the bigots will die off, at least enough of them to ensure they are in the minority, at which point gays can go ahead and march on the ballot box. But there are a lot of people living with HIV who would like to live to see that day - not to mention being able to no longer endure bigoted discrimination in employment, housing, and elsewhere.
Priorities, people, priorities.
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Not true, Bill. Gay marriage was a grass roots effort on the part of gay people who learned the very real problems that no marriage protection had on their relationships, their property, their decisions about health and treatments, having to battle hostile family members during the AIDS years. If anything, HRC, NGTLF and others of the “gay rights movement” tried very hard to downplay marriage efforts. Some of the more leftwing spokesmen were downright hostile to the idea, based on ridiculous thoughts about it being a “paternalistic heteronormative institution dedicated to the subjectation of women” or somesuch nonsense. Gay marriage only took off after AIDS, and gay people forced gay leadership to make it a priority.
Your larger point about HIV and AIDS, is well taken.
Ray is correct. The Hawaii case started it, and the big gay orgs tried very hard to discourage those plaintiffs.