Joe Solmonese, HRC's president, is stepping down. Stephen H. Miller hopes new leadership will steer HRC in another direction:
My criticisms of HRC have dwelt on its becoming too much of a strategic arm of the Democratic party. I’ll just note that it would be nice if the HRC board would consider the possibility that come January 2013, the U.S. might have a Republican president and a Republican Senate and House. It would be useful to have an HRC head who had some ability to understand and make the conservative-libertarian argument for gay equality, rather than a hard core progressive Democratic partisan. But the chances of that happening are meager.
Agreed. It's generational – a generation or two older than Solmonese, who was picked by the ageing board because he would never seriously deviate from the Democratic party machine they know and love. There's nothing to be done here, though. The GOP has thoroughly marginalized gay conservatives, and the gay Dems are careerists, not looking to rock the boat, just to get a safe, dry seat on it. I look forward to the twentieth anniversary of the HRC's head sending out emails breathlessly promising the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. One day …
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