marriage amendments and ballot initiatives, he and karl rove, then he comes out and does the right thing, comes out as gay, but also comes out of those policies. but where was he when it really mattered within his own party? in that sense it s like terry dolan, roy kohn, finkelstein, worked for jesse helms, he was in a gay marriage in massachusetts after he stopped working for jesse helms. so there s something there s a real sort of pathological disconnect. and they ve really got to be called on it and they ve got to be called on it by democrats as well as people like us. i think that ken mehlman though has sort of i think ken mehlman has done the right thing to the extent that you can t do back in time. you can indict what he did in the past, but then once you come out, if you were complicit in politics that were not only hypocritical but you decided were very bad for the country the right thing to do is work to
republican party under bush when bush had all these homophobic marriage amendments and ballot initiatives, he and karl rove, then he comes out and does the right thing, comes out as gay, but also comes out of those policies. but where was he when it really mattered within his own party? in that sense it s like terry dolan, roy kohn, finkelstein, worked for jesse helms, he was in a gay marriage in massachusetts after he stopped working for jesse helms. so there s something there s a real sort of pathological disconnect. and they ve really got to be called on it and they ve got to be called on it by democrats as well as people like us. i think that ken mehlman though has sort of i think ken mehlman has done the right thing to the extent that you can t do back in time. you can indict what he did in the past, but then once you come out, if you were complicit in
demonization of gay people. when push had marriage amendments, then he does the right thing, comes out of as gay but comes out of the policies but where was he when it really mattered whn his own party and in that sense it s like roy cohen, finkelstein, jesse helms, one of the homophobic senators, he was in a gay marriage after he stopped working for jesse helms. there was a pathological disconnect. they have to be called on it. i think ken melman has done the right thing to the extent you can t go back in time. you can indict what he did in the past once you come out if you were complicit you have to
marriage advocates, at least the ones who are working on the ground. except now in four of seven states have passed gay marriage and happened legislatively. in 2012 a move this year to put gay marriage up to repeal prop 8 in california as an initiative which i think is winnable there. i think they decided not to but i could be wrong. maine the gay marriage advocates may be pushing to have another referendum in 2012. of course, there will be marriage amendments on the ballot in minnesota defining marriage as one man and one woman and north carolina carolina this may. maggie, i want to ask you a question and i ve wanted to ask someone with your politics for a while. when i survey the scene of american marriage the thing that strikes me as a greatest threat to marriage is not gay couples and lesbian couples forming to commit a relationship it s no-fault divorce. the change in the law to create no-default divorce was the union
and i think particularly well aligned with our economic policies. it s an equality issue, what would you say to spur people on in their own communities? in north carolina, it s going to be an important local issue this spring, north carolina is the only state in the country without, or the only state in the south without one of these anti-gay marriage amendments. and that issue is going to be, you know, at the polling place, this may and it doesn t get any closer to home for folks in chapel hill, having a gay mayor, than that. you know, and we all know, we as mayors know how important equal treatment by the government is to all of our citizens. and it becoming increasingly important that we commit ourselves to treating all of our citizens equally and fairly and that, in order to enhance what