Right Wingers Kill Dallas Mayoral Candidate's Bid Because He's Gay

The right-wing Texas Eagle Forum and African American preachers in the city were successful in their last-minute character assassination of Ed Oakley, the gay candidate for Dallas mayor. They used automated phone calls and church pulpits to scare the citizens of Dallas into thinking that a gay mayor was worse than a white Republican mayor in charge of a major urban city:

http://elections.beloblog.com/archives/2007/06/oakley_concedes.html

Dallas has rejected Ed Oakley for mayor because he's gay - even though his opponent is a white Republican who is said to have been a member of an exclusive all-white country club. I hope for their sake that the minority citizens of Dallas know what they're doing.

On the bright side, the election of an openly gay mayor in a major American city might have scared left-leaning moderates back into the ranks of the neo-cons. Gays had one major victory this week in Massachusetts. Two major gay victories in one week might have invited some backlash from the center. Instead, this defeat might rightly inspire some sympathy, as this guy was clearly character-assassinated by the far right (white and black) at the last minute.