It Ain't "It's A Black Thang (You Wouldn't Understand)"

 David Weigel, over at Slate, posted this:

Above, you'll find a short video composed of the floor speeches some top Democrats made about SSM. At the time, Republicans wanted to block gay marriage in Massachusetts by amending the constitution with an official marriage definition. Democrats argued against that, but they didn't argue in favor of gay marriage. They argued that DOMA made such an amendment unneccessary. They assured people like Rick Santorum that the slippery slope case for gay marriage was bogus. 

The new Democratic advocates for SSM fall into two camps. The first consists of people who always liked the idea of this but worried about losing national elections. In his memoir, Democratic consultant Bob Shrum remembers John Kerry fretting that the Massachusetts Supreme Court had forced Democrats to talk about gay marriage before they were ready to. "Why couldn't they just wait a year?" he asked Shrum, mournfully. The second camp consists of people who really do oppose the idea of gay people getting married. Republicans argued that this second camp was tiny, and that liberals were hiding behind it. They were right!

I have said it, here, and I will continue to say it until I see different: 

 This entire debate - whether in the media, the halls of Washington, or the courts - is a lie. 

 Notice, my position - what Ann Althouse describes as California's - isn't being represented:

California, where voters amended the state constitution to restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples and where they permit civil unions that give gay people access to everything but the word "marriage." 

Because "marriage" is between a man and a woman. This ain't difficult. A union between two people of the same sex is called something else - take your pick, I'll endorse it. 

Ann argues gay unions having "everything" but a different descriptive is "almost equal treatment" - like I should take white Americans, describing me as a "black" American, to be an insult. 

Pure Al Sharpton-type thinking, so last century it's competing with The Walkman. 

Actually - when it comes to gays - that's about the only similarity with race I see,...