Governor Arnold does what craven Democrats won't do: He encourages California gays to keep fighting because they will win eventually. Can you imagine any Democrat anywhere in California (except possibly San Francisco) going on the record with unequivocal support for the right of gays to marry? And he's Republican! That spineless oyster Dianne Feinstein wouldn't do it. She made an ostensibly anti-Prop 8 TV ad in which she opposed "discrimination." Girl, opposing "discrimination" takes as much courage as opposing bad smells. Gays getting married, not "discrimination," was the issue on the table. And don't let her sister senator/oyster, Barbara Boxer, off the hook, either; she didn't even bother to make a TV ad because "she wasn't asked." Oh please, woman, even you can think of a better lie than that!
Goodness knows that the schmuck Arnold replaced, Gray Davis, never let such words pass his lips. Gays got domestic partnerships out of Davis only because he was in the throes of fighting the recall and desperately needed every vote he could buy; in calmer times Gray Davis would certainly have thrown gays under the bus and vetoed domestic partnerships because that conniving bastard had his eyes on a run for the White House and didn't want any gay baggage to weigh him down. Liberal Democrats--they are men and women of principle, each and every one of them (and they will go hoarse telling you so), right up to the very moment when they have to risk voter displeasure, and then down the toilet go the principles--and until now, the gays as well.
Arnold gets my respect. Screw the religious right before which every other Republican politician bows and scrapes; he's siding with gays and human rights. If the Republicans have any hope to save their shattered party from dissolution, they'd better model themselves on Arnold's example and boot the holy rollers and Elmer Gantrys out on their fat butts. The Republicans must reorient themselves as the party of modern secular conservatism and quit being the party of the bronze age, Yahweh, and the book of Leviticus.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest10-2008nov10,0,4939340.story
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