It's good to see that some on the gay left actually do stick to their principles. The Chicago Anti-Bashing Network (CABN) plans to picket a John Kerry fundraiser, citing the gamesmanship through which both Kerry and Illinois Democratic senate candidate Barack Obama try to have it both ways -- opposing the Federal Marriage Amendment but also opposing marriage equality for gays. This is from the CABN website:
John Kerry...says that while he opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, he also OPPOSES gay marriage and says he SUPPORTS a proposed anti-gay amendment to the Massachusetts State Constitution. In other words, he calls for destroying equal marriage rights in the one state where they have been secured!! Democratic office holders in Massachusetts are in the forefront of a move which could once again ban gay marriage there as early as 2006. ...
On Saturday night Obama and John Dean, a stand-in for Kerry, will be the honored guests at the annual Human Rights Campaign fundraiser. We call on all true supporters of full equal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people to please join us for a picket of Obama and Dean.
HRC, of course, would support Attila the Hun if he were the
Democratic presidential nominee.