Only one presidential candidate is about equality

by dedmonds

Unless your candidate is Kucinich, your candidate is NOT for LGBT equality.


Obama is NOT for LGBT equality. He's for civil unions. I don't care if they involve all the same rights with a different name. Separate but Equal ring any bells?

Edwards is NOT for LGBT equality. His wife is for marriage, but Edwards? He's not so comfortable with "those people."

Clinton is NOT for LGBT equality. Though I'll give her this: I've yet to hear her call us "those people" and she didn't have Donnie McClurkin at any campaign events. If I were a single issue voter, she'd probably be my candidate. But I'm not, so she's not.

But I'm really getting tired of reading candidate diaries touting candidate positions on LGBT issues.

Unless your candidate is Kucinich, your candidate isn't for equality. At best, your candidate is for separate but equal.

And I'm all right with that, because I know this will take time.

Just quit touting your candidate as being good on LGBT issues. The big three all have roughly the same stated positions.

And not one of them goes far enough.

Suck it up and recognize the imperfection. They're all telling us our civil rights have to wait. Don't tell me they aren't, and stop pretending otherwise to yourself.

Deal?

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