2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]dsc
(52,152 posts)there wasn't a law that said gays can't get married. There was a law that said, marriage involves a man and a woman. Getting rid of that law would mean getting rid of marriage all together, which is why that doesn't have a god damned thing to do with marriage. No person, LGBT or straight, would have read that letter in 1972 and said Bernie Sanders favors gay marriage or marriage equality. No one. Not a single, solitary soul would have read that letter that way. Incidentally, even as marriage equality was being fought for we didn't use that construction because it made no sense. I have asked, repeatedly, and nicely for any contemperanous evidence of support of marriage equality. And have gotten nada. well except for delusional readings of this letter.