Dolan took a swipe at the LGBT community and marriage equality in his prayer at the DNC.

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136. We have some in the leadership of the Dem Party who believe that not mentioning

such 'single issues' as they call them, derisively airc, is the best strategy in case we might upset the bigots and the misogynists in the Republican Party. My feeling about those who adopt that position is that they sympathize to some extent with those right wing bigots.

I first began to see this 'strategy' in action in 2004 when on DK, women, gays and African Americans were basically told to 'stfu' because 'we are not going to be dealing with single issue voters in this election', by the guy, a former Republican, who runs that forum. This led to huge meta fights on that forum and the exodus and banning of many women, gays and almost all African Americans.

The creators of this strategy, cowardly as it is, were from the DLC wing of the party. They seemed and still do, to get a huge kick out of telling these progressive voters how little they matter to the Dem Party. They use the 'Big Tent' meme to shut up anyone who tries to make them understand that you do not get Civil Rights for those without them by shutting your mouth, for any reason.

Phrases like 'so you want your pony even if it causes us to lose' etc. were constantly thrown at anyone who stood up for NOT humoring bigots and for taking a stand.

The irony is that those who thought by banning the most vocal of those who believed that the Dem Party should stand up, they would silence them, did no such thing. They were not silenced.

It is the refusal of those who were banned and/or mocked and told to stfu, to do that, that forced this party finally into ending DADT and finally publicly acknowledging the equal rights of all Americans re marriage eg. Had we all listened to these political operatives, nothing would have 'moved forward'.

Yesterday I once again saw the same attempt to shut down complaints about Dolan by falling back on the same old strategy using the same old attacks, 'pony' etc with all the usual excuses for not having the courage to do what is right. They have been proven to be wrong, but old habits die hard.