As the U.S. Supreme Court heard two major cases this week on marriage
equality, we look at how the issue has divided some in the LGBT
movement. Longtime activist and blogger Scot Nakagawa wrote a popular
essay this week called, "Why I Support Same Sex Marriage as a Civil
Right, But Not As a Strategy to Achieve Structural Change." The article
drew so much traffic that it crashed his server, twice. We speak to
Nakagawa and Marc Solomon, National Campaign Director of Freedom to
Marry, one of the leading campaigns to overturn the Defense of Marriage
Act. “The marriage issue, while very important and a step toward greater
freedoms, is not the whole ball of wax. There’s much more that we need
to fight for. I think we recognize that most people in our society do
not live in traditional nuclear family arrangements,” Nakagawa says.
“Most of us actually live outside of those arrangements and deserve to
also have the protections of our government.” Solomon, who attended
Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments, responds, “There is a lot you’re
saying that I fully agree with, especially the idea that marriage for
our LGBT community is not everything. It is an
important milestone. ... I think the challenge is to use the power and
the momentum that we’re building through the marriage fights to secure
other gains.”
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Source: Democracy Now!
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