To stop fighting now is to leave the job undone and to let the gangrene of racism that still festers in this country's underside to grow anew. This is a step in the right direction--not the whole journey.

That said, some of those comments are fucking appalling.

Is it truly misguided, though, to demand our leaders to abandon their own bigotries and stand up for gay rights? Because, as others have pointed out, this is an issue of civil rights, and the majority of Democratic Party leaders are failing miserably.

If I understand the Google advertisement thing correctly, if TPM had yanked the ads, they would have been immediately replaced (by Googe) with something else; the effect on revunue for TPM would be negligible.

Am I incorrect?

I'm honestly not sure what you're asking me. The only answer I can give is that, as a free person (man, woman, gay or straight makes no difference to me), you're free to do whatever the hell you want and ought to be. So go for it.

Obama has come out against Prop 8. McCain did not.

Correct. However, Obama has also come out against gay marriage; his solution, civil unions for gays while straights get marriage, smacks of "seperate but equal."

I voted for the guy because I think he'll do better than McCain; doesn't mean I'm giving him a free pass on his faults.

I do not want to get into a debate about what Democrats need to do to get elected.

Don't then. It's easy.

Also, thanks for identifying yourself as gay. Lord knows only those to whom the issues directly apply are fit to judge them. Is this the same school that says only generals are allowed to decide when to deploy nuclear weapons?

And note your own heterosexism in assuming that I am not gay (strongly implied in your post) simply because I don't start off as identifying myself as such. I've not identified myself as heterosexual, either; for all you know, I'm an asexual eunuch (castrated by a farming accident, thank you very much).

(Okay, I'm not really a eunuch. But I could be hetero- or homosexual; you've no idea. Nor will you, because it does not add or detract from the validity of my opinion in the eyes of the Constitution.)

Perhaps the outrage over these ads might be better put to use trying to convince Obama and other Democratic Party leaders to support gay marriage wholeheartedly instead of courting the GLBT community with one hand and denying them full rights with the other.

Uh... remember? Right guys? Right, huh...?

Never mind.

We are all. Going. To die.

Double negative much? I'm going to assume this means she's there to stay.