Gay rights in the US are shambolic.
There is no federal recognition of legal equality in the workplace for homosexuals, the Defence of Marriage Act attempts to prohibit gay love and the religious right persist in a bigoted campaign to keep the US in the Middle Ages in the arena of equality legislation for gay people.
...and yet, it remains an issue on which the leading Democratic candidates must play politics, after all 77% of the gay community already vote Democrat, and their vote only accounts for 4% of the US population.
For instance, leading Democrat candidate, Hilary Clinton, who tops all of the latest polls has said that the morality of homosexuality is for "others to conclude," whilst Barack Obama gave the following response when asked about gays in the military for a third time:
So, the initial indications are good for gay rights, but gay people in America may want to listen very carefully before blindly falling in with the Democrats on this issue.
There is no federal recognition of legal equality in the workplace for homosexuals, the Defence of Marriage Act attempts to prohibit gay love and the religious right persist in a bigoted campaign to keep the US in the Middle Ages in the arena of equality legislation for gay people.
...and yet, it remains an issue on which the leading Democratic candidates must play politics, after all 77% of the gay community already vote Democrat, and their vote only accounts for 4% of the US population.
For instance, leading Democrat candidate, Hilary Clinton, who tops all of the latest polls has said that the morality of homosexuality is for "others to conclude," whilst Barack Obama gave the following response when asked about gays in the military for a third time:
“I don’t think that homosexuals are immoral any more than I think heterosexuals are immoral … I think that people are people and to categorize one group of folks based on their sexual orientation that way I think is wrong.”Having said this, every Democratic candidate has come out in support of civil partnership (which is marriage in everything but name) and the leading Republican candidate, Rudy Giuiliani, has a strong record of supporting gay rights in New York, he is in favour of gay civil partnerships and he lived with a gay couple when he divorced his wife in 2000. Facts, which he would probably like to be less well known, considering the political inclinations of his Republican base.
So, the initial indications are good for gay rights, but gay people in America may want to listen very carefully before blindly falling in with the Democrats on this issue.
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