DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[FireIceTalon]

What I do worry about though is the fact that now because gays and lesbians can marry, that people will think the problem is solved.

That is not what happened at all. I think your entire post was just an excuse to condescend to everyone about capitalism again, because you did not pay attention to the rulings.

Also, I think there could be a reactionary backlash in some communities to this decision, which could compound the social stratification of gays and lesbians in those areas. Issues like this are not just a political or legal thing, they are a social entity with social repercussions as well, and these correspond to the entire social order (capitalism) that they are structured around.

It always amazes me how little you say with so many words. If you were a LGBT person living in an area dense in bigotry, you would probably have a much better idea about what kind of "backlash" to expect and how likely it is to happen. Let me be the first to tell you that your intuition in this area is absolute crap. Viewing everything in terms of capitalism yields a feeble model that leaves you blind to other elements at play.

-Lemming

So I need to be gay or lesbian to make an assessment of the possible social consequences of a political decision regarding the issue? Right, because you provided all the insight to the issue that there is to provide, on this issue or any other political discussion that has taken place on this forum . And you have the audacity to call my "intuition" crap? Puuuulease. Go take a long walk off a short pier.

Think you herped before you derped on that post big time man. I'll tell you whats amazing - the idiocy and naivety of tools like yourself that think the social context of any issue exists in some separate vacuum from how the entire social order and its relationships are arranged. Hint: capitalism, the whole social order in which we live, is what encompasses all elements at play, and thus they are structured around the very social relationships intrinsic to it and its operations. They don't exist as static, individual entities external from one another. Learn to see the forest through the trees, educate yourself, then come talk to me. Hint#2: when that time comes, you would do well to approach me in a much less confrontational, more intelligent way.