The White Gay Mafia Wants Marriage, Not ENDA
Posted by Marti Abernathey on Dec 8th, 2009
http://www.transadvocate.com/the-white-gay-mafia-wants-marriage-not-enda.htmI read the post by Adam Bink, "Misdirected Anger Over ENDA" and I have to say I'm pretty damn appalled. His first contention:
"I reject blame placed upon people who choose to focus on an issue and pound on it. In the first place is prioritization. By my own estimate, probably 80% of my posts and online organizing in the past three months have related to marriage equality. I focused on marriage in the Corzine race, Maine, New York State, DC, California, and New Jersey. I did this in part because of prioritization. At least 4/6 of those fights, in my view, were a more urgent priority than ENDA. Maine and Corzine happened on Nov 3rd and there is no way to change that. A deal was cut to have a vote in NYS before the end of the year. NJ needs to happen lest we get screwed the next several years by Christie. That's not mine or anyone else's fault, that's the nature of the beast and the timeline of elections, and that is part of the reason I chose to focus on them over ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) ."
This is very shocking to me. I can't think of a more classist/heterosexist answer if I wrote it myself with that intent. Boiled down to its core, it says "ENDA doesn't effect me, so I don't care." As a person that's advocated on the behalf of gays and lesbians to marry, I find this almost as shocking as John Aravosis trying to get transgender people punted out of ENDA in 2007.
