Comments on: Connecticut gay group disbands

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:39:46 +0000

Won’t it a glorious day when we all can move on from the work necessary to gain our civil rights! Many other important tasks await all humans, so let’s get going with winning our rights and making our own “equality” groups obsolete!! Congratulations to all who worked so hard in Connecticut! Victory! I think we HAVE to win enough of the individual state’s rights before we can move the federal level.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:32:59 +0000

It seems short-sighted to declare victory in any state right now. Not to mention a lack of imagination. Changing the law is only part of the story. There needs to be follow-through to ensure those rights have meaning, and aren’t repealed.

By: The Angry Fag

The Angry Fag — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:13:28 +0000

Joshua:

So they have ensure 100% beyond any doubt that is law is unbeatable? That no right-wing group will pass an amendment that invalidates it?

By: joshua whelpley

joshua whelpley — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:23:43 +0000

Angry Fag: Seriously, pay attention. Love Makes a Family was born to simply achieve marriage equality. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.

Read their mission statement. You list things they were not working on.

By: The Angry Fag

The Angry Fag — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:27:37 +0000

How is their work done? Are gays on virtually equal footing in Connecticut? How about the nation at large? Seems like a naive frame of mind.

I guess the NAACP should disband too.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:58:51 +0000

Au contraire! The work has only just begun. To quote the late Canadian feminist, Rosemary Brown, “Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.”

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:57:33 +0000

They aren’t saying screw you. If you really feel that way, form your own LGBT political group in your state or at least donate money to the LGBT political action group in your state.

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:38:24 +0000

Another point: they will undoubtedly have to re-organize when the inevitable Reich (sic) Wing repeal initiatives are circulated.

The battle is FAR from over, even in Connecticut.

By: Patrick in Connecticut

Patrick in Connecticut — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:01:02 +0000

I have to agree with Bud that although their core mission is now accomplished, they could help others rather than disband. When I lived in MA, I worked with Massequality and we were asked if we wanted the organization to disband when the threat of the anti-marriage amendments was defeated. A large number of us requested that the organization stay around and assist with other GLBT issues, as well as help the other New England states, which they are now doing. When Love Makes a Family does dissolve, I do hope that some of the folks who worked at the top do move on to other organizations to continue the struggle elsewhere.

By: TJNV

TJNV — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:35:31 +0000

We need a national “Love Makes a Family”.

Tom in Long Beach