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POPSDid Gays Deliver the Senate for Dems? It looks like they might have in Virgina where people mobilized (unsuccessfully) to defeat the anti-gay marriage amendment. I blogged earlier about how Virginia's amendment may have backfired on Republicans by bringing more African American voters to the polls, who were likely to vote for the amendment but against George Allen. Now it seems the gay and gay-friendly vote may have combined with the homophobic black vote to hand Democrats a victory in a close race. So, maybe gays did help deliver the Senate for Democrats. Now, what will we get for it? What can we reasonably ask for?
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POPSWisconsin Amendment Amended? It's been argued that the anti-gay marriage amendment in Wisconsin actually helped Democrats and cost Republicans control of the state senate. That may be, but it isn't stopping one Democratic state senator from taking on the amendment. He's not looking to make marriage a possibility. His proposal "respects the gan on gay marriages" but seeks to change the second sentence which he says strips unmarried hetero and homosexual couples of rights. So it could open up civil unions, if it makes it though the senate and survives the GOP-controlled Assembly.
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POPSMost Americans Are Anti-Anti-Gay Are they? If Gay Patriot West is right, then most Americans aren't anti-gay, but they'd just rather their politicians didn't talk about gay issues much. GWP claims that Santorum's defeat holds a lesson for Republicans, that expressing anti-gay sentiments will not help them get elected. But Democrats may have learned the lesson in GPW's second paragraph, that they can win elections if they back off on gay issues. If the best we can hope for on either side is that neither will be talking much about gay issues in the future, where exactly does that leave us.
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POPSNow That We've Got Congress... Crain does have a point. If gays & lesbians want to make progress, we're going to have to push the Democrats on "safe" (read majority supported) issues. But I think we're also going to have to push them on the marriage issues as well, with a simple message that the Democratic party supports equality. How that's accomplished may be a a matter of debate, but even Democrats who earnestly oppose same-sex marrage ought to be able to support fairness and equality. If not, why are the Democrats in the first place?
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POPSIs the Gay Marriage b/w GOP and Evangelicals Over? Maybe. At the very least, some evangelicals think there are issues a lot more pressing than same-sex marriage, and some of them support equality rights and protections for same-sex couples even if they're opposed to calling it marriage. But the bottom line is that they'd just rather not talk about it at all. Considering what evangelicals usually have to say about gays and lesbians, that's a kind of progress, I guess.
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POPSHell Hath no Fury Like a pissed off queen. Really, I'm not sure why it's news that a gay man finds his representative supports amending the constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, and decides to do everything he can to help defeat her. Or maybe it's just that the 527s aren't supposed to work for progressives the way they work for the other side.
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