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We should pour our money into supporting Lambda Legal, filing court cases to change the federal precedents?

If you wish to see the changes in your lifetime, yes. And you don't need to change the federal precedents. The ones supporting the cause for equality are already there.

Unfortunately, the politicians are the ones who confirm Supreme Court Justices. Only by electing liberal politicians can we hope to change the makeup of the court to get a positive ruling. And this current crop of politicians - both in the Congress and running for it - don't have the testi- . . . er, intestinal fortitude to take on the RW politicians who do everything in their power to keep us in check. So you've basically said . . . we're pretty much fucked.

No, not at all. Keep in mind that a conservative court decided Roe v Wade, Brown v Board of Education, and the People vs. Larry Flynt (:P). And things don't necessarily have to escalate to a federal level if folks like Lambda and the ACLU see a 50 state strategy as the way to go.

You do have a good point about getting politicians in place to appoint Scotus justices, but even the most blowhard conservative judge is still a judge first....meaning that ultimately they are there to ensure justice, which often transcends one's political feelings on something.

Ultimately what I'm saying is that you stand a much greater chance of seeing immediate results and getting a fair shake if the issues are approached from a legal standpoint, where individual rights are given more weight then the combined hysteria of the populace - which is quite often the result in politics as we've seen these last few years.