Regarding passage of an anti-gay constitutional amendment next week, Senator Wayne Allard (R-WY), the chief sponsor of the legislation in the Senate (who has gay staff, mind you), told Reuters the following:
"We may not get the votes we need the first year, but this is not viewed a one year project," Allard said. "We're going to work at it."That, my friends, is why winning next week's vote is not enough of a strategy. They're going to keep trying, year after year, until they win this vote - either because the Sup Ct overturns DOMA and everyone freaks out, or because they're able to elect an anti-gay supermajority to the Congress (with the help of our self-hating gay LGBT friends - ok, probably not any Ts, as I doubt the anti-gays are gonna tolerate them, even Ts willing to turn on their own community) - and just wait and see what happens. They'll pass that amendment in a flash.
What needs to happen is that we create a new environment in this country in which legislative gaybashing is NOT OK. In which legislative gaybashing is so costly a prospect - because you know that as a community we're gonna kick your ass - that no politician ever considers it again.
That's what an outing campaign is about. And that's why such a campaign is necessary. To date, nothing we've done has even vaguely convinced anti-gays in Congress and the White House that proposing an anti-gay constitutional amendment is too costly a prospect.
