After “betrayal,” Mixner calls for “federal strategy,” and “non-violent civil disobedience.”
Long-time civil rights advocate and activist, and former Clinton advisor David Mixner today called the behavior of both New York’s and New Jersey’s state Democrats a “betrayal,” in the wake of the New York gay marriage vote – and the impending lack of one in New Jersey.
“Eight Democrats who we helped put in positions of power in the State senate in the end voted against us and not one Republican voted for us. [...] They took our money, gathered our votes, looked in our eyes and said, “Count on me” and then voted against us.”
With an eye to the future, Mixner writes,
“What is not acceptable is that we all get filled with fear and start giving away our freedom out of frustration. Separate but equal does not work and those seeking the safety of avoiding the marriage issue should think again. Now is not the time for the timid. Now is the time for an even more aggressive approach…”
Read his entire piece at DavidMixner.com.
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That's why I feel being Gay and a Republican is an oxymoron because they almost always vote against Gay rights in favor of Christian views. I left the party in the 80s. I don’t' understand why Gay people give them their money.
I agree, that this needs to go Federal forget about these damn votes because we have Bigoted Christian's and they are the majority, and will vote how their preachers tell them to vote. Isn't that illegal? Why isn't that being discussed? I see a lot of gay people and other's saying that this isn't about "religion," but it is. Prop 8 people are Mormons and catholic, and both institutions support prop 8, while the moron church phone bank to California interfering in Californians votes through religious dogma. My own faith and teaching has NO doctrine that teaches discrimination toward another person, but my religious vote will not count because my vote is in the minority, and it will never win!
That is illegal, and all these votes against Gay Civil Marriage should be repealed. The church did not invent Civil Marriage! Some say "well "god" created Adam and eve," yes, but they didn't go into a civil office and apply for a civil marriage license. The Mormon said that it "their" 4000 year old tradition! This isn't true! The church didn't adopt the practice of Civil Marriage until later around the 8th century and prior to that people were joined just by stating they were a couple, they never got a Civil Marriage contract because it was a Pagan custom under civil law for legal purposes, NOT religious. And their alleged 4000 year old "religious marriage" is bogus, and as I understand the early texts don’t' even have a word for the term "marriage" in the Jewish texts…
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