Quote of the Day
Mar. 26th, 2013 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanToday, the United States Supreme Court is listening to arguments in two cases that will (1) decide the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and (2) the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8.
There have been numerous articles in the NYT about this, some going to ridiculous lengths to present an opposing view (witness Adam Lipnik's bizarre comparison of these cases to the Roe v. Wade decision). But the best one, by far is this one - In Less Than 50 Years, a Sea Change on Gay Rights.
The article concludes with this quotation from Former Congressman Barney Frank:
In his youth, Mr. Frank said, he realized he was drawn personally to men and professionally to government. He assumed the former would impede the latter.
“At this point,” he concluded, “I think my continued sexual attraction to men is more politically acceptable than my attraction to government.”
There have been numerous articles in the NYT about this, some going to ridiculous lengths to present an opposing view (witness Adam Lipnik's bizarre comparison of these cases to the Roe v. Wade decision). But the best one, by far is this one - In Less Than 50 Years, a Sea Change on Gay Rights.
The article concludes with this quotation from Former Congressman Barney Frank:
In his youth, Mr. Frank said, he realized he was drawn personally to men and professionally to government. He assumed the former would impede the latter.
“At this point,” he concluded, “I think my continued sexual attraction to men is more politically acceptable than my attraction to government.”
