Reply #7: how we as a society view women and their bodies

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and the notion that a woman has direct control over her own body has a bearing on how people see gay folk.

these ideas are very old -- and you are right -- alito is almost the perfect metaphor for the threat that the right poses to these ideas.

we as gay people will find very hard to get from ''A'' to ''B'' until women are seen as independent and in control of their own destiny -- and while we make progress on the one hand -- we backslide on the other.
i.e. why does mississippi have only one abortion clinic for the entire state?

alito is a lifeless, dry human being representing an enormously powerful faction wanting to drag us backwards -- he has a fundamental belief that privacy is negotiable -- which is fine for patriarchs in charge but a disaster for everybody else.

gay folk -- with clinton being a great example - cannot extricate ourselves from the womens rights issues.
much as in our anger we might like to.

and i wouldn't be so quick to judge the left lightly when it comes to gay rights -- there's plenty of submerged ''gay panic'' among the left -- and we have to be vigilant with that as well.