My third attempt to get a letter published in the Washington Blade countering their oft-repeated misrepresentation of a ruling by California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has succeeded, after I directly asked editor Chris Crain to allow it to run. Chris, apparently, is more willing than his letters editor to allow different points of view to be expressed, for which I am appreciative. Still, the preponderance of gay media will continue to robotically repeat the Democrats' talking points against Brown, no matter how distorted their charges are.
Speaking of Blade editor Crain, he has a nice editorial
in this week's issue on the Democrats acquiescence to the appellate
nomination of a true anti-gay bigot,
William Pryor, and the lackluster response from Washington's
leading gay political lobbies. Crain writes:
It is not the job of a civil rights movement to offer political cover at crunch time. Conservative groups understand this and never scream more loudly than at their own allies when they waiver.
But as I've often said, too many of our activists are Democratic
Party loyalists first and foremost, and the rest of us let them get
away with it.