A dynamic duo and an odd couple

By now, you’ve probably heard all of the hub-ub about Elton John and Rush Limbaugh. No, they didn’t same-sex-smooch, like these gentlemen:

(By the way, if any of you know the gentleman directly behind them, tell him to give me a call)

Anyway, Sir Elton got $1 million to play Rush Limbaugh’s 4th wedding, even though Rush Limbaugh is against Elton from getting even one. I am pretty sure that this constitutes throwing our community under the bus.

However, another very unlikely pair teamed up this week.

American Foundation for Equal Rights–the organization that brought the case to overturn California’s discriminatory Proposition 8 to Judge Walker’s Federal Court–has two new Advisory Board chairs. Robert A. Levy, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute, and John Podesta, President and CEO of the progressive Center for American Progress, have been named Co-chairs of the Foundation’s Advisory Board, and they celebrated by publishing a jointly-written Washington Post editorial blasting conservative opposition to marriage equality:

“Although we serve, respectively, as president of the progressive Center for American Progress and chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute, we are not joining the AFER advisory board to present a ‘bi-partisan’ front. Rather, we have come together in a non-partisan fashion, because the principle of equality before the law transcends the left-right divide and cuts to the very core of our nation’s character… Simply put, this is not about politics; it’s about an indispensable right vested in all Americans.”

They make a strong patriotic case for LGBT equality, “No less than the constitutional rights of millions of American are at stake. But now that the public appears to be catching up with the Constitution, just a little more leadership from the courts would be the perfect prescription for a free society.”

If straight men are joining on the “Gay is A-OK” bandwagon, it won’t be long before the floodgates open, and conservatives change their tune to try to lure supporters.

What do you think?

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