Getting Closer To Consensus On Gay Rights

September 14, 2010

In one remarkable summer, three federal judges in three very different parts of the country have struck down laws depriving homosexual Americans of rights everyone else takes for granted. This is what an emerging consensus looks like. Those of us who are over 50 or 60 years old have seen it before. Civil rights for women and racial minorities did not spring directly out of a couple of key Supreme …

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Look, Mom — I’m A Gay Republican Now

December 30, 2009

If being a Democrat can run in families, it runs in mine. My parents were one generation removed from Ellis Island and the Lower East Side. Tammany Hall’s ward heelers helped my grandparents become Americans by telling them how to vote. My father enlisted in the Navy at 16, got married at 20, and joined a lodge (the Knights of Pythias) and a union, both of which were virtual Republican-free …

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