GAYS DEFEND MARRIAGE

My most recent column, Marriage equality for some postpones gay equality for all, is up at the Web site of the Boulder, Colorado Daily Camera. It’s also running in several Scripps newspapers on the east coast of Florida.

The conclusion:

I totally understand that for many lesbians and gay men, the ego boost of having the governments of California and Massachusetts declare their relationships completely equal feels terrific. I haven’t forgotten the loneliness and stigma of growing up gay. But it is selfish, unfair, and even cruel for LGBT people in very progressive states to insist on retaining a purely semantic change that endangers the rights and freedoms of gays and lesbians in places where homophobia is much stronger and where the protections Americans would readily support are desperately needed.