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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
They had to bribe, arm twist, make backroom deals, pressure, beg, etc to get this bill passed by 5 votes. That is seemingly forgotten during the victory celebration. There are enough homophobic constitutes that this wouldnt have passed with that language in it. You are right, it is wrong but lets face it, gays are voting Dem no matter what they do and Obama/Pelosi werent going to risk not passing this thing because of them. I will bet you this though, they will try to change it.
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LGBT community is becoming quite a bit like the "pro-life" community on the other side. Lots of lip service, no meaningful change, as long as the money and votes keep coming because there is nowhere else to go that isn't exponentially worse that has any chance of having any power. Take the Dems who kind of don't mind you, and will maybe throw a good thing or two your way every now and then, or take the Repubs, a very good deal of whom are afraid of you, hate you, don't care if they treat you unfairly, or just plain old hope you burn in hell...and it's sort of a no-win situation, taking scraps because scraps are better than undoing decades worth of progress.