Tue 12 May 2009
When Iowa takes the lead in civil rights in the 21st Century, when New England (the spot in America where that Revolution thing started) becomes the hotbed of Gay marriage, when states approve of Gay marriage and it doesn’t make the news, America may have turned the corner.
The hard core of right wingnuts seem to be all that is left of what was called the so-called Moral Majority. We are far away from equality from all, but we are closer to that goal than we are to the days of Stonewall.
It has been five years since Massachusetts approved Gay marriage and Hell still has not frozen over. Go figure.
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May 12th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I did not know this, but Iowa has been at the forefront of the rights movement for quite a while. I was listening to a program on NPR the other day (Terry Gross?), and a representative of a gay rights group was outlining where Iowa had led the nation in rights, and stated they chose Iowa for this reason to challenge the no-same-sex-marriage (please forgive any errors of fact in the following list – I was listening in the car and could not take notes without running little-old-ladies off the road, which would have been rude):
– Granted land ownership rights to women (even – gasp – unmarried women!) in the early 1800’s;
– Integrated schools many, many years before others were forced to by the Supreme Court;
– (dang – should have taken notes – there were half a dozen examples…)
Having lived on the East Coast my whole life (NY, FL, NC), the information given on Iowa was a bit of a surprise, but a pleasant one. Will need to be a bit less prejudicial about some states in the future (but not Texas…. Texas deserves what they get… They gave us G-f’in’-W… nuff said)
May 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
What I find amusing about all of this is that the Far Right is slowly but surely destroying the Republican party. As it has been pointed out at various news-sites (and blogs) around the internet, the Right is nonexistent in the North East and West Coast, it is an “endangered species” between the Midwest through to the Mountains…only in the South East (along the so-called Bible Belt) is the Right Wing really accepted and day by day they are casting more of their members out in a search for “political purity”.
Why?
It is exactly this alienation that has caused the failure of the GOP. They push out those that don’t think like them, leaving only like-minded candidates whom more moderates (which make up the vast majority of the population) who think that these people are too extreme and don’t want them in office…so they go the other way, though still preferring someone more to the center than anything else.
In any event, this is just one more thing that has shown that the Far Right’s oppressive demands on the population as a whole and it’s party in particular has utterly failed.