Brownback's "Gay Apartheid"

Here's a good follow up to the previous post about Senator Brownback's hold on Judge Neff's nomination. John Whiteside called Brownback's hold on the nomination Brownback's "gay apartheid," and he has a point. Any time someone actually has empathy or experience that goes against the Right Wing's desires, then judges and jury members should not be allowed to rule on cases.

"What's next? Someone who has too many black friends can't rule fairly on an affirmative action case? If you're not a Christian, you can't possible rule fairly in a case on separation of church and state? Perhaps no female judges should be allowed to rule on any sex discrimination cases." See the full post at: http://blogs.chron.com/bluebayou/2006/12/sam_brownbacks_new_gay_aparthe.html

The Regressive Right has a few things going for it in its successful campaign of hatred against gay couples, which in turn supplies mountains of cash and votes from people who think they are doing "God's work". The biggest one is that many of their supporters don't know any gay people well enough to sympathize with them, and the media primarily enforces stereotypes that make these right-wingers not want to know them. Brownback's attitude is to misuse government to keep those people who may actually know gay people (and may actually see that they are not the proverbial boogeymen the Right wants them to appear) away from legal decisions.

Yes, calling it gay apartheid is accurate.