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Friday, August 10, 2007

The HRC/LOGO VisibleVote '08 Forum
Posted by Jill | 6:34 AM
Yesterday Randi Rhodes had the funniest line of the day when talking about last night's HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum: "The only time you see Republicans talking to gay people it involves meth and a bathroom."

Pam was there, and provides complete coverage here, here, and here.

Other than closeted married conservatives for whom the possibility of living openly as your true self IS a threat to their sham marriages, I've never understood the logic of claiming that gay marriage is somehow a threat to straight marriage. It seems to me that blogging, with the amount of time it consumes, has far more potential to threaten a marriage than gay marriage does.

If you ask someone why they don't think gays should marry, it's always going to come down to something along the lines of "I just don't like thinking about the way they....." -- and then it trails off.

Now I don't know about you, but I just don't spend time thinking about the sex lives of my friends and neighbors. It really never occurs to me.

Doesn't it seem just a bit weird to frame one's acquaintances and even the people one sees on the street in terms of what they do in their bedrooms? And yet, that's all the homophobes seem able to think about.

Pam writes about Bill Richardson's phumphering of the choice/orientation question last night and his clarification following the forum. For all that this is an audience that Democrats SHOULD be embracing instead of deluding themselves that evangelical voters are going to stop voting for guys like George W. Bush and start voting for Democrats, it still takes (for all that it shouldn't) a certain amount of guts to do a debate like this -- and risk a Bill Richardson-style screwup. John Edwards has admitted to wrestling between his rational mind and his Baptist upbringing on the question. But at least he's wrestling with it. I think I know where he's going to end up, and it's not going to be with the Baptists.

Oh, sure, the wingnuts are going to run this fall on the Democratic nominee being the candiate of the sodomites, because it's what their base wants to hear. But this forum last night was a welcome sign that for once, the Democrats aren't basing their decisions on what the Republicans will do to smear them.

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