Jimmy Carter disappoints on the issue of Texas and gay marriage

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42. You are really twisting the notion of "states rights" here.

States reserve the right to be sued all the way into the federal courts, by residents being harmed by state policy? Huh?

I understand your wish to defend Pres. Carter, I admire him as well. But those words he spoke were NOT a simple lesson about how government works. They just weren't, and it's frankly insulting for you to insist otherwise.

Yes, he supports LGBT rights, but he undercuts that support when he says let states decide. It is the states that are discriminating -- actively harming millions of people -- and his words lend moral authority to continuing that harm.

Honestly, I think you're way out of bounds lecturing LGBT people about marriage equality -- in the LGBT forum, no less -- and shouting down their experience-informed view of what the discussion is all about.

This might be an opportunity for allies to practice more listening, less lecturing.