PLEASE LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE!

As a Gay Male who over 40. The actually possibility in this country of Gay Marriage being legal is NIL.
And one thing you must remember the person who sits in 1600 Penn Ave NW cannot make those decisions. It’s the house and senate that can. And pray to God they don’t give the states rights to do it, Then its D.O.A
Then you have the biggest fight of them all. The Supreme Court.

And after seeing McCain saying on TV today he wants more Supreme Court judges like Alito, and Roberts it is for sure A DEAD ISSUE.

Us Democrats need to realize fight the real fight come Nov AND it’s not Obama-vs-Clinton

Please, Please Wake up before it’s too late!

We’re all sitting here going off on each other with bitter statements on the behalf of the two and they’re all laughing, smiling having backdoor meetings on how to fuse this ticket

DESTROY THE CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM THAT IS OUR NUCLEAR TARGET!

This is the same federal that forbade “known homosexuals” from entering the country until 1991.

This is the same federal government that gave us DADT and DOMA.

This is the same federal government that subverts local protections for sexual minorities by specifically passing legislation to allow churches, the military, and “faith-based organizations” to discriminate.

This is the same federal government that deports gay asylum seekers on the basis that can “avoid” persecution by remaining in the closet.

This is the same federal government that mandates “abstinence until heterosexual marriage” policies, using DOE funding as a form of extortion against the various states.

This is the same federal government that drafted gays into military to fight and die in Europe, Korea, and Vietnam. But then discharges the survivors as soon as the war’s over.

This is the same federal government that has consistently voted (along with the likes of Iran and Saudi Arabia) against every pro-gay United Nations resolution ever proposed.

I’ll take my chances with the state legislatures, thank you very much. At least at the state level, we have about 15-20 legislatures where we can make some tangible progress. Congress and the WHite House are simply loss causes. I’d be happy if those idiots in Washington would simply leave us alone for once!

Once the judiciary becomes corrupted, politicized and abused by those in power, then the most powerless among us are in the most trouble. Remember, the judiciary holds the key to the jailhouses and the banks.

If you are a true libertarian, then you want to make sure the judiciary remains independent from politics. In the world we live in now, Democrats do that more than Republicans.

Mildred Loving died last week. She is the Loving from Loving v. Virginia, the FEDERAL case that struck down about 16 STATE laws against interracial marriage in 1967. A majority of Americans were still opposed to interracial marriage until 1991. Without the Loving, we may STILL have enforceable laws against interracial marriage on the books in some states (I think there are unenforceable laws still on the books in some states). If McCain appoints justices like Roberts, Alito, or Scalia, you can set back the day when we see gay marriage in every state about half a century or so.

Gay people cannot marry in 49 of 50 states. That is what limited federal power has done for us so far.

Because the type of federal power he wants to limit is the power to strike down anti-gay marriage amendments from state constitutions. That makes him anti-gay.

They may not even get to rule on ENDA, either the real version or the one that Barney Frank, Hillary Clintons campaign manager, slashed to ribbons or on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill. The Democrats tossed them in the garbage to prevent Republicans using them as a wedge issue, in spite if the fact that they’re desperately needed.

Who knows if they’ll keep their promises to revive them? What if they treat them like they treated their 2006 election promise to end the war? The Democrats constantly vote to fund it and refuse to impeach felons like Bush and Cheney.

No matter who wins, McCain, Clinton or Obama, we lose.

Because so many states have passed anti-gay marriage or anti-civil union laws, the next long-term battle front for gay rights such as these will be in the courts. Conservatives know this. There will likely be two vacancies (if not three) on the US Supreme Court during the next administration.

We need Hillary or Obama in the white house so that a Roberts, Scalia or Alito are not appointed. Democrat judges believe the consitution is an evolving document that changes with our standards of acceptance and decency.

Conservative/Republican judges are strict constructionist and believe the constitution should be interpreted in the manner of the original authors…thats right, before women, people of color, or other minorities had any rights. From a strict constructionist view, there is no such thing as “gay rights” because they did not exist 200 years ago.

Electing McCain will be so harmful to gay rights in many ways, this is just one reason.