Uh, where did you get the idea that the majority of Americans favor the politics you outlined, Ord?

Just a reminder: George Bush did not win a majority in the last election. The "majority" of Americans in fact do not support the conservative economic and political agendas you assume are the source of gay people´s alienation. We remain alienated principally on the basis of our sexual DESIRE. The repeal of the sodomy laws is a step toward our tolerance, not our acceptance in any broad way.

It has become a virtually predictable argument on these boards that the historic gay alliance with liberal causes is the source of our marginalization. This is an absurd fiction, considering that most people voted for Gore, that there is no historic precedent for the contention (consider blacks, women and their civil rights struggles).

Don´t buy this, folks. It´s just wishful thinking.