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| Brad Ellsworth, one of dozens of new Democrats elected to Congress last week, supports a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Photo by Darron Cummings/AP) |
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new rights and protections for gays.
“If my gay neighbor suffers from discrimination, then I suffer as well, and so does the entire community,” he said, “just as when my female neighbor is held down by a glass ceiling, or my new immigrant neighbor is treated in a way that makes him or her feel unwelcome in our country.
Markos “Kos” Moulitsas Zuniga, a liberal political commentator, backs such inclusive approaches.
Moulitsas, who writes the Daily Kos blog, said gay legislation is best advanced under the more widely accepted political banner of equal opportunity.
“As long as we talk about fairness and opportunity instead of what the gays are getting, what the blacks are getting, what the women are getting,” he said in an interview, “if we can get away from that, and talk about a fair society, a just society, it gets much harder for the opposition.”
Marble said such unifying Democratic ideals should help overcome any ideological differences among the new congressmen.
“I don’t see ideology, whether it be liberal or conservative, being an obstacle to supportive legislation in the 110th Congress,” he said. “Maybe there will be a few incoming freshmen Democrats who won’t be supportive of everything, but I think we’re very optimistic about the incoming Democrats.”
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