The Left is trying to replay the civil rights era of the blacks. It gave them lots of political mileage. If you can cast yourself as on the civil rights for gays team, you reap political benefits. You can use it to demonize those who are not on board for religious reasons. And, using the Alinsky method, you can destroy your opponents.
In the case of Van Jones, we can use the Alinsky method against him. We can say his Marxist politics is against the civil rights of all people. In the case of Marxism, the elite party members oppress the civil rights of the people they rule. With them there are no rights endowed to us by our Creator. Van Jones is the oppressor of all the people.
When the leftists are getting hammered economically because of their Socialist policies, they always turn to the social issues.
This is all about the 2014 elections.
Approaching 2016, watch radical feminism and women’s rights (focusing on lesbian rights) take center stage as Hitlery prepares to be coronated.