Maggie Brooks’ Homophobic Court Battle Results In More Rights For Gays
What did that one Simpsons character always say? Something like “Ha, ha“:
Finger Lakes Community Collegehas granted health benefits to the spouse of an associate professor, based on a court decision in Monroe County recognizing same-sex marriage.
We reported previously that Brooks’ Homophobic Grandstanding Court Appeal Spectacular already resulted in NY State insurance companies being directed to treat same-sex marriages the same as hetero marriages.
Who knew that Brooks’ court battle against the gays would really be a rear-guard action that keeps giving gays more rights? There’s something very ironic, and satisfying, about this whole thing.
Brooks’ fundamentalist and/or gay-queasy base must be frustrated that her political positioning has backfired so amazingly.
Equal rights is a progressive value.
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Every time something like this happens, I can’t help myself — I take a very smug satisfaction in knowing that Maggie Brooks and the Monroe County Republican Party have done more to advance LGBT rights in this state than anyone else.
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