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Title: The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage Isn’t Over. Far From It.
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 14, 2024, 07:44:55 AM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 14, 2024, 07:44:55 AM
The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage Isn't Over. Far From It.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fight-for-same-sex-marriage-isn-t-over-far-from-it/ar-BB1jSMKY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4596ce2b225c438eb5e25f6f78bf4d33&ei=14
Story by Philip Elliott (14 March 2024)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, Kelley Robinson was running the political shop at Planned Parenthood.
Robinson is now president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, and fears she's watching the same slow-moving car crash all over again. The most glaring sign of many came about on the day Roe fell.
"In Clarence Thomas' dissent, he says the quiet part out loud: next they are coming for Windsor and Obergefell and Lawrence," she says, citing three rulings that unlocked a national right to same-sex marriage.
"People think that marriage equality is a fait accompli," says Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, a former spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee and Yale Law graduate who is on the board of LPAC, which raises money to help lesbians and their allies win elections. "They think that not just because of Obergefell but because of the Respect for Marriage Act. They're wrong—dangerously wrong."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fight-for-same-sex-marriage-isn-t-over-far-from-it/ar-BB1jSMKY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4596ce2b225c438eb5e25f6f78bf4d33&ei=14
Story by Philip Elliott (14 March 2024)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, Kelley Robinson was running the political shop at Planned Parenthood.
Robinson is now president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, and fears she's watching the same slow-moving car crash all over again. The most glaring sign of many came about on the day Roe fell.
"In Clarence Thomas' dissent, he says the quiet part out loud: next they are coming for Windsor and Obergefell and Lawrence," she says, citing three rulings that unlocked a national right to same-sex marriage.
"People think that marriage equality is a fait accompli," says Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, a former spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee and Yale Law graduate who is on the board of LPAC, which raises money to help lesbians and their allies win elections. "They think that not just because of Obergefell but because of the Respect for Marriage Act. They're wrong—dangerously wrong."
Title: Re: The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage Isn’t Over. Far From It.
Post by: Jenn104 on March 14, 2024, 08:18:32 AM
Post by: Jenn104 on March 14, 2024, 08:18:32 AM
there is a fairly well known WWII Holocaust quote, from a Protestant pastor named Martin Niemoller which applies -
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.