Reply #137: The point is certainly debatable.

[Taylor Mason Powell]

The historical analogy you present is apt, but also quite likely distinguishable. I mean, they didn't have to deal with a George W. Bush administration, for example. History never repeats itself exactly.

Be that as it may, your original point that I was responding to was that my position "marginalized gays." Debating the best way to advance gay rights is not marginalizing gays. I happen to think it would have been better for Newsom to take the Massachusetts route. I also think if he had done that, it would have advanced gay rights more quickly, not less, and also that there's a chance that we'd be looking at a President-elect Kerry today -- although I'm not ready to say that with any great degree of certainty.

As for the original post, yeah it was harsh, but again, this is the "fighting and acrimony" forum.