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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Gays And The Religionists: Prop 8

Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times on the new movie about Harvey Milk:

The movie, chronicling the rancorous California fight of gay activists
against church-backed forces in the ’70s to prevent discrimination against gays,
is opening amid a rancorous California fight of gay activists against
church-backed forces to prevent discrimination against gays.

Some things never change...or do they? The overall culture now is much more accepting of gays and willing to embrace equal rights for gay people. It seems that a part of the populace is still holding onto medieval views about sexuality, but if we gays had waged a better campaign we could have won the Prop 8 battle. Our ads were timed late and actually somewhat closeted. We blew it, now we have to fix it.

Jim

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