Openly gay candidates win elections in record numbers

[DuaneBidoux]

Openly gay candidates have won elections in record numbers, and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund celebrated its "unprecedented success" in a press release obtained by RAW STORY.

<http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Openly_gay_candidates_win_in_record_1108.html>

Go down to the bottom and look at the list of candidates and some of the places they were elected!

[BattyDem]

1. Then why are so many anti-gay amendments passing?

If openly gay people are getting elected to office, then Americans obviously don't have a problem with their "morality" - so why are those damn amendments passing all over the place? :shrug:

[xilet]

2. Why indeed

Because it is much easier for people to go "Oh its in defense of marriage so it must be good, its just preventing people from abusing the tax system" over "Oh he is gay thats evil", support for the first one on the surface does not appeal nearly as bigoted as the second one.

[Kikosexy2]

6. Gay candidates in the House...

FFFFAAAABBBUUULLLOUUUSSS!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. 2 thoughts...

1) People are starting to realize that what occurs between consenting adults in private has no bearing on their leadership ability.

2) People still need to learn that same-sex marriages do not present a threat to heterosexual marriages...Or maybe they're just freaked about the prospect of explaining all the facts of life to their kids.

[DuaneBidoux]

4. That's a really good question. It's like people have two distinct categories for gay people.

There are those individuals that they become familiar with one-to-one and then they begin seeing them as just people like everyone else, and then there is something simply sacred about this category of marriage in their heads that they can't get over.

I personally have no real dedication or fidelity to the word marriage (unlike many gay folks who don't feel that way). All I really care about (personally) is that these people have the same legal protections and rights as married people. Call it what you want as far as I'm concerned.

[David__77]

5. Stockton, CA has lesbian on city council now.

Anti-gay slander during campaign.

[Vidar]

7. Applauding.

[xchrom]

8. sexism and homophobia can have very subtle traits in people.

not at all unlike racism -- which can run very deep.

it's more than ''god hates fags'' or the confederate flag.

people can think i'm ''cute'' and smart enough to run for and hold an elected office -- but never hold my significant relationships to be as deep and loving as theirs.

for many, many americans the fact that i'm gay makes me in some sense -- inconsequential compared to them.

they can hold that dichotomy in the palm of their hand -- they can even defend me to my detractors -- but they can't really see me as a full human being -- entitled to my whole life.

[rodeodance]

9. good for them

[Az_lefty]

10. Good, maybe some of these stupid laws will get turned around...

"the gays are threatening my marriage" ignorance needs to go.
I live in Az and we actually defeated one of those gay marriage laws yesterday.

[leesa]

11. Maybe we are finally on our way to the positive end of the gay civil rights

fight. Women have had to fight this fight, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, everyone has had their whack. Who's next?