There's a piece on TAP (The American Prospect) online by Keely Savoie about state's Equal Rights Amendments being used to bolster arguments for gay marriage. Savoie thinks that feminists might be hoarding ERA to themselves and refusing to help out their pro-marriage gay kin. She references early feminist selfishness, when feminists were ready to sacrifice blacks voting rights for women's voting rights for the 19th amendment in the 1920s.
But there's no argument in her piece about feminists may have reasons for blocking gay marriage. Maybe gay marriage (gasp!) isn't necessarily a feminist issue! I'm not sure this is true, but I do think that feminist organizations should think twice about supporting gay marriage. Marriage, after all, is still a profoundly sexist institution under the law. I don't think the feminist Savoie quotes is thinking along those lines, it sounds like she's just hoarding, but still, this is something to consider.
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