For once I agree with Dennis Kucinich

He and I both support gay marriage. That may be the only area in which we do agree, but at least there’s that. I was suspicious of Dennis , however, when he remarked to the Democrat’s forum on gay and lesbian issues: “All I can say is, keep those contributions coming … and you’ll have the president that you want.” Contributions? So we get more Dennis – the man who has been rejected by the American electorate by a greater margin than anyone in living memory, yet still pops up to pollute airwaves on a more consistent basis than anyone since Arthur Godfrey? Everything about Dennis seems to be about Dennis, just as it is about John Edwards. I don’t believe it for a second when Edwards asserted at the same forum he was “comfortable” around gay people. I have no doubt that Bob Schrum was telling it like it was in his memoir when he recounted Edwards’ homophobia. Edwards is the quintessentially inauthentic man to me, no matter what he says.

Actually, we all know the candidate most comfortable around gay people in the genuine sense and that’s Rudolph Giuliani. And I don’t mean because he danced around in drag or whatever he did. I mean because he strikes me as a modern New Yorker who has lived in the real world. He has gay friends and straight friends as a matter of course and doesn’t think much about it. That’s life.

But, as I have said before, gay marriage is a done deal and people should stop worrying about it (except to get equal partnership legal rights). Anyone paying the slightest attention sees gay “married” couples all around us- some happy, some not, some in between. Yawn.

Now – to be frank – I have not seen this forum, only read reports. I’m sure I will catch bits of it later tonight on television. So I would like to ask if anyone mentioned the huge elephant in the room and I don’t mean Republicans. I mean Islamic fascism and its outright assault on gays and women beyond anything that has ever been conceived in our culture. Did Melissa Etheridge and her fellow and gal panelists show any interest in that? Did the candidates?