Let's not forget that a segment of the gay left has never come onboard the marriage fight. Writes gay "progressive" Michael Bronski in The Boston Phoenix:
Alongside the well-worn plea for gay cultural liberation is emerging a critique of gay marriage based on class rather than culture. Indeed, the push to legalize same-sex marriage has been so rushed and emotionally heady...that complicated legal issues with particular implications for the working poor and people of color were quite simply ignored.
...in the Boston College Law Review, lawyers Kara S. Suffredini and Madeleine V. Findley argue persuasively that while same-sex marriage will provide advantages to some people -- those with incomes that are middle class or higher -- it could have deleterious effects on other groups. Suffredini and Findley examine a myriad of commonly accepted myths about the benefits of same-sex marriage and discover that, often, they deliver far less than they promise, especially if you are poor....
...the simple fact remains that the fight for marriage equality is at its essence not a progressive fight, but rather a deeply conservative one.
Oh, the horror of gays working for mere legal equality, rather
than to undermine capitalism and patriarchy!
--Stephen H. Miller
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