Stewart Alexander: Same-Sex Marriage Rights Can’t Wait

Since socialists and commies hate homosexuals, why do you support marriage for them??? Oh, to get their support to boost you into power. Are you then going to persecute them out of existence as socialists are want to do to minorities when they finally get into power. Socialism sucks.

And to HELL with hetro marriage rights TOO!!!

Why would gay couples want equal rights with hetro couples?

Because hetro couples have greater rights under the accepted law than other Americans have. And that means they have greater rights than single Americans have.

Why would someone who CLAIMS to be for equal rights be saying that gay coules should join the hetro couples in discriminating against single Americans???

Fight for equal rights for single Americans or you are just joining the problem. Equal rights for single Americans means equal rights for ALL. Including gay people, and to their shag-rin, hetro couples as well.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR SINGLE AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!! or you can go to hell with my blessing.

Socialists support all civil rights and marriage is a civil right. We oppose putting discrimination into the state constitution, which is what Proposition 8 did. Once that is allowed, anyone can be discriminated against and have no constitutional protections. The issue is not marriage; the issue is civil rights. As to single people, our rights are not threatened by gay marriage so there is no problem on this issue. Anti-communism is the ideology of the homophobes and there can be no advance on the gay marriage issue when those supporting gay marriage also promote anti-communism. As to what previous governments did in relation to gays claiming to be communist, homosexual relations were originally legalized by the Bolshevik Revolution and then reversed by the counter-revolutionary Stalin, in a desperately backward country, Russia, at a time when there was no large worldwide gay liberation movement, which came into existence in the 1970s, easily within memory of this writer and the majority of US voters. Germany had a gay liberation movement at the time of its attempt at socialist revolution in the 1920s, and that was destroyed by the anti-communist Nazis who took power in 1933. Socialists as organizations in the US have been supportive of the gay liberation movement since the 1970s, an advance over most of the rest of the US population. There were many socialists as individuals who supported gay rights before the 1970s, a time when it was unthinkable to come out as gay as that certainly meant losing one's job, children and much more. Sodomy was illegal in California before 1975 and was not legalized in the US until June 26, 2003 with the Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas. THAT WAS SIX YEARS AGO. See
http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/lawrence/lawrence.htm

The concept of gay marriage simply did not exist before the 1970s and it is still seen as odd to the less educated. While we may celebrate 40 years since Stonewall of 1969, the official (but not the actual worldwide) start of the current gay liberation movement, that is still a very short time ago for political struggles. Peace & Freedom Party was formed in 1968 and became socialist in 1974. P&F, like the gay movement, came out of the struggles against the anti-communist US War Against Vietnam. Here is the gay rights platform of Peace & Freedom Party:
From:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform/full-platform
Sexual Orientation
Equal treatment and benefits under the law for all families. Guarantee equal child custody, adoption, visitation privileges, and foster parenthood rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Equal treatment for all people in the military regardless of sexual orientation.
The right to gay marriage and partners' benefits.
Accurate sex education courses in public schools. Truthful information about sexuality in society and history.

As to the current effort to repeal Prop 8, it should certainly be on the November 2010 ballot. The repeal depends on the YOUNG FINALLY VOTING FOR A CHANGE, those who have no personal memory of Stonewall, no memory of wars of anti-communism (now called anti-terrorism but are the same thing), no memory of what occurred before 1989! Only 18% of the voters are ages 18 to 35, the most likely group to support gay marriage. It will take a massive voter registration effort of all American citizen college students in California and pushing them to the polls to repeal Prop 8. It can easily be done as all we need is 700,000 more votes in a state of 27 million adults, but attacking any friends of gay marriage, such as socialists, does not get the job done. UNITY IS THE KEY TO VICTORY.

In less than a year we will resume our practice of marriage equality, in California. We will achieve this equal status through the courts, and that is where it counts. Why the hell should we need to ask voters permission, via their votes, to get married? Nobody else is treated this way, and our Perry vs. Schwarzenegger challenge demonstrates this reality.

The religious bigots will be free to continue to hate, but we will not allow them to place their disgusting barriers into our private lives through constitutional amendments. So, good luck to everyone who has the patience with homophobes, and anyone else who believes that our liberties should be subject to a popular vote. I'm not paying for it!

We're going to ram proposition 8 straight up the Mormon, Catholic, and the evil Evangelical institutions' ass, hard and fast, in a court of law!