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Isn't that some sh!t and I'm gay.
SMDH
Oh how we forget!
http://ameriqueer.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-p2-c...
(http://bit.ly/HEYP2ALLY
FWIW, I'm straight - and I'm deeply offended by the notion that LGBT civil rights are subject to majority vote.
I'm fighting this battle with you. As all progressives should do.
It's time to face the fact that homosexuality will never be seen as normal by the majority of the public of America or any country. Give up the whole marriage thing and work towards basic rights as was just past in Washington.
Times change and so does the language. Thanks to the conservatives constantly comparing being a liberal with something totally foreign, it has finally ruined the word, hence, the usage of progressive.
I think you are welcome to your opinion, as flawed as it is, but we gays and lesbians decided a long time ago that we wouldn't let homophobes decide or define who we are as a people and whether we deserve the same equal rights as they. That would give them too much power over us that they do not deserve to have.
I reside in the state of Washington and I'm relieved that we will have the same state rights as straights. ( for now, until the next group of haters wants to challenge our freedom. ) Of course, you must realize that there are well over a thousand Federal rights of which, we are still lacking only because we haven't fought for them. So, straight americans get all the rights under the Constitution whilst gay and lesbian americans are still fighting to become equal. How lucky you are that you take all of this for granted just because your orientation is attracted to the opposite sex. The actual "fact" in this is that we will win them. ( We shouldn't have to fight for them because we already have them under the Constitution but laws are being made to take those rights away from us and the government will not enforce our rights until they are forced to do so. The Constitution doesn't say special rights for straight people and less rights for second-class citizens. I think you need to research this and not just pull opinions out of the air as fact. Many countries in the world are already "light-years" ahead of us with human rights issues, especially regarding gay rights. Eventually, all the lies about us will be exposed to "normal" people and they will see that discrimination against us as is a negative action in a polite society.
If you prefer to be on the opposite side of history, that is your right. I'm sure there still are those folks holding on to their prejudices against blacks but, eventually, they became the small minority who refused to consider the facts as well. Such is the case with us. Science stands behind us on this and if it weren't for the indoctrination by the religionists to choose us as their "whipping-boy," this wouldn't be happening. I think it's time you faced the facts that homosexuality has been present in all cultures from the beginning of time and it will be here after I am long gone. You need to get over your own prejudices against gays. If you don't like what gays do, then, don't do it. But, don't begin to pontificate to us about how we should live our own lives as citizens.
Homework first, snark after you understand the basics.
KTHANXBYE
Assuming he does what some sort of health care reform, he would have achieved it if he had established gay civil rights first. And done a dozen other easy acts for other constituents.
Instead, now when he wants support, there's less and less enthusiasm there.
Obama chose Time Kaine of Virginia to nominally run the DNC. Kaine, like Bill Cinton, is a Dixiecrat. Kaine’s ‘faith based’ program is against reproductive choice and stem cell research and for funding abstinence training. He was an early and hardnosed supporter of the genocide in Iraq and the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. He ran a gay-baiting campaign to become governor and has the same bigoted attitude towards same sex marriage as Obama, McCain and Hillary Clinton.
The real power in the DNC is Leah Daughtry who runs its day to day operations. Like Obama she’s a christite theocrat. She’s an ordained pentecostal bigot who opposes same sex marriage. Daughtry used DNC funds to pay for anti-GLBT and anti-choice campaigns by other theocrats. Daughtry was sued, successfully, by the DNCs own director or LGBT outreach for antigay discriminatory hiring and firing practice.
Obama liked Daughtry so much she was promoted to run the Democrat national convention in Denver. Obama’s campaign catered to the christian right from beginning to end, from Donnie McClurkin to Rick Warren and ‘gawd’s in the mix”. Obama chose another ordained pentecostal bigot, Joshua Dubois to run his ‘faith’, read bigot, outreach and made significant inroads into the Republicans bigot outreach.
With Democrat ‘friends’ like Obama, Daughtry, Kaine and Dubois who needs Republican enemies like Bush and Rove.