Comments on: Ruby-Sachs: The Gay Marriage Equality Summit

By: jon

jon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:00:45 +0000

Leadership…like someone needs to be the “head gay”? There is no election for that.

From obscurity, Harvey Milk stepped up to the plate and said he was in charge. No one challenged it. And he went against and challenged “The Advocate” and the “queens of SF” (the modern day HRC).

Who’s the next Harvey?

By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:59:26 +0000

LOrian, I agree with you. Some congress members are on our side. Bless them. We should keep building coalitions. One thing I have to say about our community is that we need to quit the name calling, especially on people who don’t support gay marriage.It’s not helping our cause thus far. MOST OVERUSED PHRASES:They are bigots, religious hatemongers, we are being thrown under the bus, we are being sent to the back of the bus,other ethnic minorities should know better, Rick Waren, Obama is throwing us under the bus. Obama still hasn’t repelled DADT. Come on guys, we need to be smart even as we fight.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:12:24 +0000

Don’t believe me (see below) here is
Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.): “We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I’ve heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred, and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.”

By: LOrion

LOrion — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:10:58 +0000

So its back to reinventing our ‘movement’…lets just keep everyone involved for now. The more noise the better. Let PFLAG really help people…HRC throw their parties, ACLU fight for us all…
AND NOW we have congress! Dont believe me, just read this piece by
MJones on change.org
gayrights.change.org/blog/view/members_of_congress_supporting_marriage_equality

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:34:46 +0000

For once, I agree with Ruby-Sachs. Mostly.

I will add that most gay people I speak with place most the blame for the No on 8 campaign with its failed leadership. EQ California perhaps more than the others deserves the lion’s share of the blame as they were outspoken in their opposition to show gay families in the commercials or look at the religion angle to combat the churches.

I firmly believe that we need to quit preaching to the choir by advertising and promoting to the major population centers where the majority of our supporters live. Instead we now need to focus on bridge building with churches and religious leaders. Marriage IS NOT just a civil rights issue. Its also a freedom of religion issue. The Mormon and Catholic churches shouldn’t be able to dictate to all the other churches who they can and can’t marry. This is the message we should be pressing with all the other denominations.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:09:26 +0000

Whatever is done must make use of the Join the Impact people. They aren’t perfect, but only they were able to harness the feelings of motivated people, even outside the USA, in response to Prop 8′s passage. I don’t think the people in the Human Rights Closet know how to deal with that. The era of top-down is over.