New Yorker’s David Remnick takes the Republican candidates to task over the issue of gay rights
In terms of civil rights, in terms of the progress of human decency, one of the clearest political victories of 2011 — a long and cruelly delayed victory — is the triumph, last June, of marriage equality in the State of New York. This is a victory that will, if we are lucky, spread to many more states and has already enriched the lives of countless gay and lesbian couples. That the remaining Republican candidates (except, notably, Ron Paul) have found so many ways to deride this right, so long in coming, is appalling. History should not forget that at this late date Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and, most recently, Newt Gingrichâ€"politicians who propose to inspire and leadâ€"have pandered to fear and much worse by pledging their support for a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
From a must-read New Yorker blog post entitled “The Republicans and Gay Rights,” by David Remnick, the magazine’s editor. (NewYorker.com)
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