"I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it."
That's why I'm rooting for a Johnson moment: A former Senator from Texas does NOT want to sign a Civil Rights bill and give away the South to the GOP, but he HAD to...
The thing is: in the past year, since the crucible of Prop 8's passage, the language of bigotry HAS been applied to Gay Civil Rights opponents for the first time, and "bigot" is such a powerful and accurate word that it makes the argument in ONE WORD.
Homophobia is the same as racism.
And is just as unacceptable.
It is bigotry, and to label it so moves votes.
(People don't want to be called bigots, don't want their names and addresses posted online as donors to Prop 8, don't want to be shunned at cocktail parties.)
Preferring him to McCain is easy, sure, but holding him to a higher standard than I would hold McCain is my right, because I should expect better of a Democrat, ESPECIALLY one who eld my hand and proudly declared himself my ally.
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Date: 2009-06-13 04:54 pm (UTC)That's why I'm rooting for a Johnson moment: A former Senator from Texas does NOT want to sign a Civil Rights bill and give away the South to the GOP, but he HAD to...
The thing is: in the past year, since the crucible of Prop 8's passage, the language of bigotry HAS been applied to Gay Civil Rights opponents for the first time, and "bigot" is such a powerful and accurate word that it makes the argument in ONE WORD.
Homophobia is the same as racism.
And is just as unacceptable.
It is bigotry, and to label it so moves votes.
(People don't want to be called bigots, don't want their names and addresses posted online as donors to Prop 8, don't want to be shunned at cocktail parties.)
Preferring him to McCain is easy, sure, but holding him to a higher standard than I would hold McCain is my right, because I should expect better of a Democrat, ESPECIALLY one who eld my hand and proudly declared himself my ally.