Posted on 09/06/2012 3:05:11 PM PDT by scottjewell
At their convention, Democrats finally say it loud and clear
More than a dozen speakers mentioned LGBT equality on the first two nights of the Democratic convention, including Michelle Obama, who positioned marriage equality as a new ingredient of American greatness: “If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.”
Openly gay speakers are getting primetime billing. A record-setting 8 percent of delegates are LGBT. The party’s unprecedented embrace of gay equality comes a week after Joe Biden thanked gay rights advocates in Provincetown for “freeing the soul of the American people.”
The gay rights movement, said the vice president, was advancing the “civil rights of every straight American.” For gay people’s “courage,” he said, “We owe you.”
There you have it: For the first time ever, Democrats at their most public, high-profile moment are treating gay rights as a political winner. They’re moving along with public opinion: In the latest Harris Interactive poll, 52 percent of likely voters favored same-sex marriage, including 70 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents.
If the gay love affair is part political calculation, it also reflects a lesson from both American history and queer theory: minorities need not always conform to the majority, and their advances can actually make things better for everyone.
This message helps rewrite the false script conservatives have created (with too much help from liberals) that representing the needs of minorities is mere interest-group politics, the doling out of goodies in exchange for votes.
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” the last arrogance before the backlash. Or am I being too optimistic? “
Nah, I think the DNC went off the deep end.
Let’s hope.
So without a marriage license, homosexuals are prohibited from working hard and succeeding in their chosen fields.
That’s really interesting.
I hope you’re correct. It’s that silent majority - I pray it still exists, not just in my small corner of the world.
We don’t need the LGBTQ’s or NAMBA.
They went off the deep end a long time ago.
Now they are arrogant about it all.
Hopefully the citizens of our Republic are watching.
I’m down for the pursuit of Happiness.
Hopefully, they care.
The Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, Macedonian Empire, and the Japanese Empire post 1880. The DNC must be engaging in "Magical thinking" to believe that somehow, they are exempt from repeating what history has shown, time and again.
” Now they are arrogant about it all. “
Let’s hope America pays attention.
This convention has pretty well laid it out for all America to see what the democrat party has become. It bills itself a party of inclusiveness, but that only includes unions, socialists, atheists, and the fringe elements of society. Average working Americans, and those who hold a mainstream religious belief (including the Jews) need not apply.
Each and every one of these groups has been on full display this week. When things like the platform amendment vote of yesterday goes ballistic on Facebook and Tweeter, and newspapers/TV dare write and speak about it, its not something that will be contained. No wonder there’s no statistical bounce thus far. People may be waiting to hear Obama speak, but his words will be put in context with the past 4 years, and what we’ve seen with our own eyes. And it ain’t pretty. Now I’ll shut up.
The Democrats have chosen their side. As a people, the citizens of this republic have never been so polarized. Like a stressed fault line, it can only stay calm for so long.
That clown sure said a lot for having said nothing.
Yes, good way of illustrating it, and I’m thinking the same thing.
If homosexuality were normal, life would have already extinguished itself.
Good one : )
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