Fact: Republican Anti-Gay Bigotry is Rooted in Racism from the Jim Crow Era (Video)
by Simone Sanner
In
a round table discussion on MSNBC recently, Aisha Moodie-Mills of the
Center For American Progress compares the bigotry of Brian Brown of the
conservative group National Organization For Marriage to the same
arguments people used to use when Jim Crow laws were first overturned.
In
the video of the discussion, you hear Mills telling Brown, "I'm
reminded of all the arguments that were made to support Jim Crow laws
and to support slavery, right? ...And it's absolutely the same kind of
bigotry. Very simply what we are talking about here is a group of people
who think that because a group of folks are different, they should be
treated differently under the law, and what we know in America is that,
that should never be."
Earlier
in the debate, Brown complained that "elites" were forcing people to
vote in polls in support of marriage equality, saying, "Why would the
polling not move in the direction of redefining marriage when you have
almost all of "the elites" trying to bludgeon and put down people who
agree with this new orthodoxy?"
Effectively,
Brown is saying his party is being persecuted into supporting gay
marriage. Or it could just be that Hoosiers don't see it as any of their
business. Or, simply stated, Hoosiers see liberty as the birthright of
every American.
Unfortunately
for Brown, there's evidence that Hoosiers don't support the ban and are
in fact supportive of marriage quality. In a new poll, 58% of those asked oppose a ban on gay marriage.
Even 40% of those polled were Republicans.
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