Kirchick: gays, cool your jets on Warren
by: Pam Spaulding
Sat Dec 27, 2008 at 15:00:00 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=14F1308EA2C26F2EF829AE7CAEBF43FA?diaryId=8811

also http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/kirchick_gays_cool_your_jets_on_warren.php

Blenders, what is your take on this piece by Jamie Kirchick, "The Gay Community Needs to Calm Down About Rick Warren"? A snippet:

    The problem for gay activists is that many Americans agree with Rick Warren when it comes to same-sex love. And these people, numbering in the over 100 million range, are not going to be budged in their views by hectoring activists who call them bigots (even though that's what many of them are). Now, I'm of the firm belief that these debates will be moot in 20 years, when the older generation kicks the bucket and the near-universally gay-accepting Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers take the reins of government. Whatever political victories they feel that they've won from Proposition 8 and the other marriage amendments across the country, the anti-gay forces of reaction in this country are gasping their last breath. The honest ones among them acknowledge this, if not publicly. We will hasten the day of gay equality by engaging respectfully with them and winning over the persuadable ones (many of whom, I bet, are followers of Warren), rather than calling them names.