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Your assertion that LGBT rights activists didn't come up with civil unions isn't backed in history. In fact during the time DOMA was proposed many activists sup
by norea-armozel 10y ago
Your assertion that LGBT rights activists didn't come up with civil unions isn't backed in history. In fact during the time DOMA was proposed many activists supported civil unions as a compromise. It was the right wing that chose to oppose that as well as the ENDA bill even when transgender protections (for folks like me) were ejected from the bill. So, I suggest you correct your statements on that post to be historically accurate.
- throwanem 10y agoIf I'm wrong, I'd like not to be, but I'm having trouble finding references to substantiate this claim. Would you happen to have something suitable at hand?
- norea-armozel 10y agoGoogle it, trust me. Plenty of noise on the right during the 1990s/early-2000s was in strong opposition to civil unions as a whole. Whether it was Falwell and Roberts or the RNC talking heads it was always responded to negatively. They saw it as a slippery slope to full civil marriage.