The Washington Blade has an excellent article entitled The Marriage Myth which dispels the myth that gay marriage cost John Kerry the 2004 election. Of course the information has been out there for a long time. Eric Stern wrote an excellent summary of the 2004 election that we posted in December 2004, but perhaps back then, it was still too close to the (painful) election for most folks to really look at the data objectively.

Alan Van Capelle (Empire State Pride Agenda) is working hard to get the facts out to Democrats and to challenge their assumptions about marriage. Here's my favorite quote:

"The Democratic party can go on the 700 Club and they can talk to Jerry Falwell and they can do all these things to court the conservative vote, and they will never be conservative enough to win their support.

But in doing so they will alienate and isolate a group of LGBT voters who otherwise would have been out in the streets and writing checks for them and hosting house parties for them, etc.”

Be sure to read the whole article here.