Do you follow or “like” posts on this asshole’s blog? Then I declare you guilty by association. Maybe it’s not fair, but I feel very strongly about those who spread hate and bigotry. And if you keep giving acceptance to this idiot, then you’re part of the problem. I don’t care if some of his posts are likeable or not. I don’t care if your religion demands that you have backward beliefs about gay people. I don’t care if you’re just paying back Mr. Sedona’s likes on your blog.
Be his blogging friend if you want. This is a free country. But I can see each and every one of you, and if you frequent his blog, then please don’t visit mine. This is my line in the sand.
Right Wing Watch posted about Christian conservative activist Wayne Allyn Root—the same one who posited that Obama must have blackmailed Justice Roberts on the Obamacare decision—going on a radio show and positing that gay people are just going to be getting all divorced all the time. From their coverage:
“Marriage is the most difficult thing in the world,” he said, “I’m talking to you as someone who has been married 24 years, marriage is so difficult that if you do not go to church every Sunday and your whole life isn’t built on a bedrock faith in God and you don’t have kids and your whole life isn’t built around those kids and none of that’s in place and you’re married, the odds of you staying married are close to zero. Divorces will now triple. Gays will never stay married. They just bought themselves the biggest bunch of unhappiness and legal bills that they could ever imagine.”
Oh dear! I’ve been with the same man for 22 years and our lives aren’t built on a bedrock of misunderstood scripture, children who hate us, and the hypocrisy of going to church every Sunday while voting for virulent racists.
My partner and I should probably start saving for the divorce.
40 years ago the Not-Christians said that Gay relationships never last more than six months.
Perhaps the closeness of the ruling reflects the tenuousness of this fresh legal insight into the rights of same-sex couples to love and marry as they please.
But here it is; proof that we can change the world.
I should feel joy.
I should be on the phone and celebrating with friends.
It took over 40 years and the blackest night of the 1980’s, but I’ve lived to hear it said at last, “You are human.”
The word: Homosexual was an adjective before it was a noun. Those who desire today to kill homosexuals (and there are many) are the descendents of those who first killed the homosexual in themselves. The quest for a full life of today’s gay liberationists – if it is to be realized – will lift the penalty of death for the homosexual in all women and men.
Gay liberation, on the surface, is a struggle by homosexuals for dignity and respect.
Of course we want to “come out, : (that is, to end our hiding) to forbid such terms as “faggot,” and “dyke,” and “queer,” to hold down jobs without having to play straight, and to change and abolish laws which restrict and denigrate us.
“The goals of gay liberation, including the elimination of capitalism, imperialism, and racism, are premised on the termination of a system based on male privilege.”
I don’t agree with the idea of eliminating regulated Capitalism, but I’d welcome the departure of imperialism and racism.
To look at an isolated event within the context of a timeline is to find a foreshadowing of the present:
Here is what happened in the year leading to Stonewall:
July 20, 1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
October 16, 1968 – In Mexico City, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men’s 200 metres.
June 18–June 22, 1969 – The National Convention of the Students for a Democratic Society, held in Chicago, collapses, and the Weatherman faction seizes control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any activity run from the National Office or bearing the name of SDS is Weatherman-controlled.
In the United States, you can hate my guts but you no longer have the right to mark me as a criminal and deny me the right to vote, seek work, and marry.
You no longer have the right to terrorize me in my gathering places.
You no longer have the right to deprive me of medical care.
You no longer have the right to use the law to hate me to death.
