How many times do we need to see this scenario played out?
A few months before an election the GOP trots out a hateful anti-gay rights bill to get the religious right to the polls.
This is our achilles heel.
Before someone says 'we should simply back off', please realize we don't actually DO anything. The courts do and the states do and the cities do. Then Karl Rove does. And he will continue to do.
And are the Democrats on the side of right? No. they are ducking for cover, while leaving their achilles heel exposed.
It will never be acceptable for Democrats to fall on the side of the religious right on this issue.
Is there another way?
I was watching Cornel West on Bill Mahr the other night.
He was saying that what Democrats have to do is what Brother Martin did. Expose the side of justice to the people.
We need to sell it.
Otherwise we will lose again and again.