What disgusts me? Armchair activists who engage in intellectual masturbation instead of actually getting off their duffs and doing something.

Also, to Brian Miller [Comment #7], who wrote, “We’re their patsies, and it’s never going to change. Too many of us value political power and a lefty agenda over our own basic dignity.” I’ll be right there with you! Let’s get something done.

I must agree that the appropriate place to put pressure in on Congress

Which would involve an ultimatum, with a deadline attached, to the Democrats (who run Congress) — along with Obama, who would have to receive a separate ultimatum to sign whatever bill Congress passes.

Which will NEVER happen, because when push comes to shove, Democrats punch the queer community in the stomach, stomps on their face as they fall to the ground and says “shut the fuck up, FAGGOT!”

And the queer community gets up, brushes itself off, whimpers “well we don’t want to see the Republicans get in power, may I have another sir,” and promptly sends hundreds of millions of dollars and millions of votes to the Democrats.

We’re their patsies, and it’s never going to change. Too many of us value political power and a lefty agenda over our own basic dignity.

I was, however, just happy to have any form of visibility in Montgomery, AL.

– Daniel C. Davis

1. The only Americans who weren’t already aware of the issue of gay marriage would have to have been in a coma for the past decade.

2. The focus itself is retarded by nature of its narrow focus. The cry should be for “CONGRESS and Obama to repeal DOMA” because it’s a federal LAW not simply a policy and he can’t do anything [besides advocate for change] until Congress does.

3. While it wouldn’t hurt, how much repeal of the FEDERAL version of DOMA would help is relative. All but a handful of states have their own version of DOMA, therefore only those couples who live in Massachusetts or those few states with civil union/domestic partnership laws could hope that the federal government minus DOMA would then, for instance, recognize their joint income task returns. It would also open the way for the POSSIBILITY of the foreign born partner of a gay American citizen becoming a citizen, but again, only relative to those few states that have some kind of legal recognition. But, hey, children, and that’s EXACTLY the mentality driving the Impact clown car, are not ones for nuance and facts.

4. The saddest part of your commmentary shares the core self-delusion of Amy Impact and her homo homeys: that media attention = change. It CAN but NOT in 10-second sound bites. The repetitiveness of these same-old, same-old tired approaches to change long ago began to fall on the proverbial deaf ears; as annoying as the endless “better do somethin’ cause yer TV is gonna die in February” PSAs.

5. When will someone uncover how much these people are being paid by the Right Wing to distract gays from actually ACTing UP?