‘I still think it’s a good moment for gays in this country’
SOUNDBITES — “But I’m sorry. I still think it’s a good moment for gays in this country, who can now get legally married in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa, with New York state heading in the same direction. And if I had to choose between California being able to maintain its same-sex marriage laws last November or the election of our current president, I’d pick the latter. I don’t just want a better world for gays. I want a better world for everyone, and I like to believe that we now have a president who wants to steer us in that direction. Yes, we may be in an economic depression, but if a troubled economy helped to get us a nuanced thinker in the White House, a man who symbolizes such hope for America’s minorities, well then, I’m willing to take the good with the bad for now.” —Bob Morris, who lives in New York City but has a valid marriage license from California [Salon]
This is the same silliness Mr. Morris used to write as the token gay for the New York Times.
Did anybody ever ask, “Which would you prefer: marriage equality or a president with a brain?” Uh, no, and in fact it’s a little odd to formulate that question. Call me crazy but I’m thinking we shouldn’t have to choose one or the other.
Yes, the depression is more important than gay rights. But I’m thinking it wouldn’t exactly suck up Mr. Obama’s entire summer to sign something that says “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is DONE.”
Last, Mr. Morris, enjoy your little poodle and your little daughter and your little husband and your little beautifully-decorated Greenwich Village apartment. In the future, though, think about whether upper-class white men should write opinion pieces on how the rest of us should act.
I’m definitely not an ‘upper class gay’ at the moment having taken some major hits w/this depression. I’m excited about the states that are progressive enough to enact same sex marriage, but sometimes feel I’m suffering from an identity crisis or split personality. On one hand I’m an American….and on the other I’m a ‘Gay’ American. While I’m mostly pleased at the direction President Obama is taking the country in, I’m also really angry at his (non) treatment of gay issues. It’s a weird time, but you have to keep moving forward somehow.
Where’s Tank when we need him?
I completely agree. We could be worse off. We could have McCain/Palin in office. If that was the case, what do you think our outlook would be? Probably pretty dismal.
I just want Obama to at least acknowledge things. Tell us where we are on this road to repealing DADT. Comment on prop 8 being upheld, a proposition he said he didn’t want to see passed. Tell us how he sees it influencing minority rights in California in the future. Tell us anything for fucks sake.
If McCain had won, we’d still have DADT, gay troops would still be discharged, DOMA would be enforced, binational couples would be threatened with deportation, we’d still ban travel to the US for HIV positive people, and we wouldn’t pass a nondiscrimination bill.
Oh, right. Things are totally different now that Obama’s in the whitehouse!
@Raphael: So if some of those things disappear, if the hate crimes statute and ENDA are passed, if the ban on HIV positive travelers is lifted, if domestic partnerships are extended to federal workers….you’ll recant?
That’s my problem with this absurdity. Criticize the pace of progress, but at least recognize that there has been progress.
all y’all veruca salts are overtired & cranky, i see.
equal spousal unions are the golden mean, in my opinion.
“marriage” as such is out of style, in any event.
let the federal SC recognize fully equal civil unions for all americans as a near future development.
this is an opportunity, not a disaster.
really? we’re in a struggle? gays? yay! let’s hold hands and sing, like in that coca cola commercial.
This gay novel has pretty extreme views about religion and being gay all done in a sci-fi style sory, the writer was even almost killed when this book was first published. After being banned in his own country it is now available.
check the plot – As predicted by Isaac Newton the second coming happened and as the world waited to see what was about to happen an appointed man was sent to meet God, hours later God had vanished and the man came out immortal; no apocalypse, no destruction and no salvation. This gave birth to a chain of holy wars that almost chattered Earth’s civilizations and so giving birth to a mass colonization of planets to ensure peace by separation. Thousands of years later all was at peace by until Endings were born; humans connected to their planets in such a way that they are capable of destroying them should they wish it. Now Earth’s Ending has been born and the day to pass judgment draws near.
it can be found here
http://www.lulu.com/content/pa.....d-/7182389
Apart from that it is very hard to find