A Wish For A Mother's Day When Our GLBT Children Can Have Equal Protection Under The Law

In a heart warming letter to the editor, in Quad Citians, Joyce Wiley, wishes for a Mother's Day when her GLBT children can receive equal protection under the law and marry the partner of their choice. Mothers want equal protection for gay kids

Letters such as this make me wish our Democratic party leaders would speak in a more unified voice and demand equal protection under the law for all American citizens. But sadly, some prominent Democrats, such as Mark Warner (VA), oppose both civil unions, marriage equality, and other domestic partnership benefits for the GLBT, in a position that is well to the right of even many GOP political leaders, such as Rudy Giuliani and George Patacki, whom both support civil unions.

The right wing, GOP, has announced their intention to make the regressive, anti-GLBT Family Protection Act legislation a key theme in the November elections, and have proposals to do so in eleven states including Virginia. Will our party stand up and respond with a unified voice and as a champian for the GLBT on these issues?