What works is equal rights, legislative change, a legal workplace which means access to the same services and institutions as everyone else.
After all, most Democrats are not subject to unrelenting pressure from lobbies and donors who oppose their positions on equal rights, guns, climate change, choice, etc.
Working within existing law, Cabinet secretaries have searched for ways to ensure that gay men and women receive equal rights through regulatory changes.
Instead, they should be using every pressure point to strengthen the reformist strands within the monarchy in support of political change, equal rights for women and an end to the language of Shiite sectarianism in Bahrain.
We need leaders who are willing to tolerate their own discomfort and of making others uncomfortable on big issues like climate change, equal rights, gun control, food policy, and taxation to name a few.
Gail: There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.
They complained that she represented a minority of those in same-sex relationships and that she had furthermore handed a cudgel to our opponents, who might now cite her professed malleability as they make their case that incentives to change, not equal rights, are what we need.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), attempting to change the constitution to grant women equal rights, passed both houses in 1972.
He hopes that the situation for women in Afghanistan will change and equal rights will come about.
But as women throughout our country fight for change -- for equal rights and equal opportunity -- the White House will be a partner in their work.
