Right and Feminist Groups in “Not Me” Contest over Gay Rights

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What with Mother Jones being referred to as a “liberal stalwart” (Chicago Tribune) and a “porno-political remnant of the nineteen sixties” (the NRA), you’d think that our readers would be leftist–and, err, sex-positive–enough to support gay rights. But nobody seems willing to support the gay cause. Check out a couple of comments from one of my recent blog posts on GLBT issues:

I, personally, am not anti-gay BUT…if one owns a small business then one’s views count. If you can’t stand flaming queens then why would you employ one? Laws aren’t going to force you to hire one, your personal tastes will sort out who gets the job. My point in general is that, as OWNER of a business, who the fu*k is going to tell me how to run it?

Homosexuality is a perversion and no one should be forced to hire perverts.

Well, some feminists don’t want to help the queers any more than these Mother Jones readers do. The Maryland Court of Appeals is currently considering a claim that banning gay marriage constitutes a violation of the state’s Equal Rights Amendment. (The Massachusetts gay marriage decision partially relied on that state’s ERA.) Die-hard supporters still trying to win a national ERA are pissed, the American Prospect reports:

Idella Moore of 4ERA, penned a Women’s E-News column titled “The ERA has nothing to do with Gay Marriage” in which she wrote, “…[T]oday we must battle not only long-time opponents of the amendment, but defend this amendment against misinterpretation by those whom most would consider our natural allies.”

Meanwhile, the die-hard opponents of the ERA to whom Moore refers are simultaneously accusing her of being the gay-lover. An article in the National Review gloated, “Mrs. Schlafly not only had the right idea when she fought the Equal Rights Amendment during the 70s, but predictions she made back then are still accurate today.” Schlafly had predicted that the “ERA would legalize the granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples and generally implement the gay and lesbian agenda.”

And we all know that granting the 4 percent of Americans who are openly gay the right to marry will bring this country to its knees even faster than the journalism of this “pro-terrorist rag” (Lyndon LaRouche).

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