Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, or any of the civil rights acts that have been passed since the 1960s?
That movement was disciplined.
It was strategic.
It picked its battles.
It picked its fights.
And it compromised to move the ball forward.
And right now, that compromise would be deemed unprincipled, weak, and throwing everyone under the bus.
And that is...
That is so counterproductive.
It is so harmful.
And it completely betrays the lessons of every single social movement and civil rights movement in our country's history.
And we have an example of a very successful social movement in recent history with marriage equality.
Where would we have been in 2007 and 2008 if not only we had not tolerated the fact that Barack Obama was ostensibly not for marriage equality then, but if we had said to voters, even if you vote against the marriage ban but aren't quite comfortable with marriage yet, that you're a bigot and you don't belong in our coalition, where would that movement have been?
The most effective messengers were the people who had evolved themselves.
We had grace personified in that movement, and it worked beyond even the advocate's wildest expectations in terms of the speed of both legal progress and cultural progress.
Because we created incentives for people to grow, we created space for people to grow, and we allowed people into our tent, into that conversation who weren't already with us.
I think on the sports conversation, it's local control.
It's allowing for individual athletic associations to make those individual determinations, and in some cases they'll have policies that strike a right balance.
In some cases they'll have policies that are too restrictive.
And I think that that is the equivalent to the civil union's position in that debate.
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