A Stitch in Haste

To review: John Edwards is "not there yet." "There" meaning the Twenty-First Century and its quite modest expectation that gays not be irrationally discriminated against in the name of primitive dogma and un-Christian hate.

Neither "there" yet are an embarrassingly large number of (mostly self-anointed) gay "leaders" who are going out of their way to tell the world that it's perfectly okay to be "not there yet." (PDF - 3 pages)

As the Democratic presidential nominee, John Edwards would represent nothing less than the chance to alter the conventional foundations of American politics. Edwards demonstrates strong leadership, not only on the critical issues facing the LGBT community, but also by offering bold ideas like guaranteeing universal health care to every man, woman and child in this nation, ending poverty in this country during our lifetime, and stopping global warming while creating hundreds of thousands of quality American jobs in a new energy economy.

Translation:

We are liberals first, indignant gays second. We are therefore willing, indeed eager, to embrace a presidential candidate who openly acknowledges that he has a backward, dysfunctional moral code that blinds him to our interests, needs and entitlements.

We see no shame in this. Indeed we take pride in it. We have no difficulty in exposing our fickleness and demonstrating to the entire Democratic Party that we are perfectly willing to be exploited -- yet again.

We are perfectly content to forget how the last "not there yet" Democratic president betrayed us not once but twice. And we are perfectly willing to be betrayed again. We welcome it.

Because we are liberals first, indignant gays second.

One week ago I blogged the following:

It's refreshing to see a greater intolerance toward intolerance among young gays. I've often wondered, given their youth, if they truly appreciate, for example, just how loathsome and curseworthy Hillary Clinton is for continuing to support (or at least refusing to apologize and act to undo) her pervert husband's betrayal of gays, not once (DOMA) but twice (DADT). It's nice to see that so many of the next generation have learned the lessons of the past and are now applying Scotty's Rule and putting Obama (and, one would hope, his fellow moral defectives) on notice: This is not acceptable. If you want our votes, then you better start earning them.

So much for that idea.

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Just to be clear: I'm not saying that Edwards is an anti-gay candidate. He is not, at least nominally. (Then again, neither was Bill Clinton -- nominally.) My indignation is toward these gay "leaders" who are going out of their way to omit Edwards' positions on gay issues and focus instead on some laughable gobbledygook about the superiority of his purported "fifty-state strategy" and the presumption that all gays concur with his radical liberal, socialized medicine, protectionist, class warfare agenda -- which these gay signatories seem to value more than his position on ENDA or DADT. Shame on them.

Via Good As You. Here is one signatory's explanation of his support for Edwards.