yesthattom | ...from a political rant i'm writing...

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However Geoge Lakoff's article still stands: calling it Freedom To Marry appeals to the people who's mind we're trying to change. It steals the thunder away from the right, just as calling "abortion rights" "Pro-Choice" re-framed the issue in a way that let us win because we were playing on our terms not theirs.

And slightly related to this...

We need to attack them as strongly as they attack us. The NJ "all roads to justice" concept works so well for DP because it confused the radical right... they aren't used to us working on more than one issue at a time. They couldn't say, "Oh, we'd be ok with X but not Y" (and look like they wanted a compromise) because we wanted X *and* Y. As a result they had to be truthful and say, "we're a bunch of hatemongers that don't want either". We're usually timid and polite and do one thing at a time. By doing 2 issues at once, we united "both sides" of the GLBT community, and beat back the right. Hats off to the people that pushed the "all roads to justice" strategy. Even though we're fighting two causes, it didn't double the work to be done.

While we fight against a DOMO constitutional amendment, we should also be trying to pass the "Freedom To Marry" constitutional amendment. At the same time, we should introduce legislation to put Martin Luther King Jr's face on the $20 bill, pay full slavery Reparations, de-accredit single-religion private schools, increase federal public education funding by 10x, mandatory condom distribution in grade school, anti-homophobia education K-12, change Ronald Reagan Airport to LBJ Airport, zero funding for "physical education" in public schools, removal of tax breaks for right-wing TV televangelists, and (as a non-legislative action) stop calling portable toilets "johns" and call them "Reagans" instead.