2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]dsc
(52,130 posts)it just isn't. If you are so ignorant that you don't know that then you shouldn't be posting about LGBT issues at all. If you are so dishonest that you post this anyhow, you shouldn't be posting about any issues at all. First, removing all laws actually would not have led to marriage equality, unless your form of equality is no one being married. There wasn't a law banning LGBT from being married in Vermont, there was a law defining marriage in Vermont as being between a man and a woman, and even that was apparently debatable enough that some friends of the court argued that there was no such definition. Second, no one, not a single, solitary LGBT person nor straight person had marriage on his or her radar in 1972. What this letter does refer to is anti Sodomy laws and possibly housing discrimination.