His Elitism is Showing.

Ah, Andrew (Sullivan, not Rosenthal this time).
A self-confessed one-percenter, just listen to this logic:

The future is understood by Chris Christie who just nominated an openly gay African-American, married for thirty years, to the state supreme court. Christie still opposes marriage rights for gays, but has left the door open if the legislature moves forward, as it wants to do. But when you are treating a potential member of the state supreme court as a second-class citizen, in the end, the position becomes untenable.

Nevermind the awkward writing (how do you marry, or stay married, to a supreme court, exactly?)

Check out the elitism on display there: a potential member of the state supreme court can't be treated as a second-class citizen, surely!

But all those now living under state constitutional marriage amendments of one-man, one-woman (rinse and repeat, in the case of easy divorce)? Well, it's not like they are elite citizens, supreme court justices or anything!!


In reality, "gay rights activist" (can we stick with that, rather than writer or philosopher?) Sullivan pushed hard to earn himself and his husband the benefits they now enjoy, where they are at. His life is veddy veddy good! (smoke yer pot, and not have to pay the piper either, it seems...)

Still, you wonder, had Andy and his equally motivated gay rights activists take a ... longer-view term? In actually what happened was: The push for equality for some, led to even greater second-class citizenship -- now enshrined in State constitutions via longstanding amendments -- for others, do to the backlash that Sullivan and his ilk wrought.

Instead of moving forward together, he helped advance the rights of some at the expense of others. Sure, you can blame this on the GOP and Republican candidates. (I always forget: is Andrew identifying as a conservative catholic republican today, or not? Seems to change day by day, issue by issue, no?)

But I wonder, had "leadership" like Sullivan's not occured, would equality for all (no second-class citizenship, period) have occurred faster in the states, or slower? That is, if you look overall, how has his "movement" helped -- and harmed -- American gays throughout the country?

No fair just adding up your successes, without taking responsibility for the "backlash" either. (and no, despite how it might be trumpeted tonight, I don't think that reversing the Clinton-era policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the military is all that much a concession or victory won by the Obama administration. More, please! Much, much, much more work needs to be done, and now undone, thanks to the elite me-me-me! Sullivan types, who had so much more to lose as a second-classer.)