The fact that you’re apparently unaware that “gm” was “tested” in four states last November with universally positive outcomes for equality does not bode well for your skills as a political analyst.

Convenient application of retroactive martyrdom. Read the correspondence between Manning and WikiLeaks and it becomes clear that his release of the information was more motivated by petty, personal frustrations than anything else. He wanted to hurt the military because he was unsatisfied, not because he was on some grand quest to expose the truth.