Gavin Newsom in Rolling Stone
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who’s a very pretty man and who briefly kicked open the marriage door for gays back in 2004, gives a blunt Q&A to Rolling Stone in which he states clearly what no one else will: that the majority of Democratic politicians actually support gay marriage, but are too afraid to say so. People know timidity and equivocation when they see it (Hillary, anyone?), and that’s why the Republicans always have marriage as a handy wedge issue. It’s the lack of conviction—not the support for gays— that loses elections for Democrats. Asks Newsom, “Where’s the moral courage?” Read the whole thing here.
