May 19, 2006  |  By: CHRIS CRAIN  | COMMENTS     

health care crisis and national security,” Solmonese says in the release, “not putting discrimination in the United States Constitution.”

What sort of gay rights strategy is it, when the attention of Americans is focused on our issues, to argue that our rights aren’t important, and refuse to engage our opponents in the debate over our equality?

Sure it makes political sense for Dean and the DNC to issue press releases, delivered only to us, defending us, and then have the party’s senators respond to conservative attacks on our families by arguing that the issue isn’t as important as rising gas prices. But what self-respecting gay rights group would echo that argument?

Can anyone imagine Martin Luther King Jr., responding to an attempt to rollback the gains of the Civil Rights Movement by arguing that the issue shouldn’t be debated because rising gas prices are more important?

Worst of all, HRC’s lapdog strategy reeks of lacking confidence in the arguments for our own equality.