Don’t agree with their views, but I always admire people who take a stand for what they believe:
Two prominent gay figures, activist David Mixner and widely read blogger Andy Towle, have pulled out of a Democratic National Committee fundraiser later this month amid growing calls to confront the administration at what was supposed to be its first large scale opportunity to bring in gay cash.
“I will not attend a fundraiser for the National Democratic Party in Washington next week when the current administration is responsible for these kind of actions,” Mixner wrote of a motion to dismiss a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act that drew a parallel between same-sex marriage to incestuous marriage. “How will they ever take us seriously if we keep forking out money while they harm us. For now on, my money is going to battles within the community such as the fight in Maine or the March on Washington! I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to ‘suck it up’ because so many other profound issues are at stake,” Mixner wrote.
“I’ve had concerns about the lack of movement from the administration on LGBT issues for some time now but I wasn’t comfortable attending after that DOMA brief came out,” Towle, who writes the widely read Towle Road blog, said in an e-mail.
Now, some might say these men are causing division and trying to push the party to extremes – much as people claim that religious conservatives are doing in the GOP. But that is not the case. What is happening here is that the rank-and-file are getting ticked off at pouring out their money and sweat and getting shafted by the people who claim to champion their cause. I’m seeing a refreshing lot of this of late – more on the right than on the left, but all part of a general trend towards a “people vs powerful” political dynamic.
I want us to have it out – to hold a left/right political debate and then cast ballots and see just what sort of America the majority wants to have. No more shadow-boxing and focus-group-tested rhetoric designed to obscure positions and offend as few as possible. Lets all get out there and rub people the wrong way – get them thinking, get them talking. I don’t want to win because I’m not the other guy – I want to win because my side has convinced a majority that the conservative viewpoint is correct. That way, with victory, will come a genuine mandate to make deep and fundamental changes in the way our government operates. And if a strand-up fight between left and right results in a left wing victory, then so be it – I’m not about to tell my fellow Americans they can’t choose folly, if they so desire…but I don’t want folly sneaking in to power by pretending to be moderate.
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