There’s an interview with Gavin Newsom in the New York Times today. The Mayor of San Francisco, and now defunct Gubernatorial candidate, seems a little bummed that things didn’t work out in his favor. However, the upside of being a lame duck politician is you get to say pretty much whatever you want, like this snippet about Obama’s record on LGBT issues:
I asked whether President Obama, who said at a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration that the civil rights movement was partly about “changing people’s hearts and minds and breaking out of old customs and old habits,” had disappointed him given that the president is a triumph of civil rights himself.
“Oh, I can’t get in trouble here,” Newsom said with a playful wince. “I want him to succeed. But I am very upset by what he’s not done in terms of rights of gays and lesbians. I understand it tactically in a campaign, but at this point I don’t know. There is some belief that he actually doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage. But it’s fundamentally inexcusable for a member of the Democratic Party to stand on the principle that separate is now equal, but only on the basis of sexual orientation. We’ve always fought for the rights of minorities and against the whims of majorities.”
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