Our LGBT Establishment is in a dust up over whether to put gay marriage back on the California ballot in 2010 or 2012. This same establishment had earlier dissuaded other activists from taking their case to the US Supreme Court for fear that the august, final arbiter of the rights of runaway slaves, women, Japanese interned, might rule against the Great Cause and close the book.
While I am eternally happy when my LGBT comrades find True Love, I continue to find the agenda item of LGBT marriage a rather elitist point, made by elites and by elitist LGBT's who do not understand the political problem of the working classes, LGBT or otherwise. Raising the bar of our social and public democracy so that health care, housing, and education are public rights equally empowers the significance of LGBT equality.
Otherwise some will still be more equal than others. Equality to our fellow marginalized underclass is like demanding steerage class bunks on the Titanic.
Implicit in this current dust-up between LGBT factions, Equality California and Courage Campaign, is the delusion that rights come from governments. I've already noted the US Supreme Court's stellar record where Black slaves, women, Japanese interned during WWII. I could include war powers and the US intent to wage imperial wars whenever and wherever it wanted.
Have we lost the will to fight in our respective trenches? Imagine the labor activists who striked for our eight-hour work day petitioning bourgeois voters and our federal courts. The working class would still be warned that too much leisure would only be filled with alcoholism.
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