"Christian" rights using children and fear to support their point of view
"Loving Liberals" use slander and public shame for theirs.
Hey, this is NOT going to work. Intimidating people is not how you win the hearts and minds of the people around you. In fact, it just makes them all the more resentful. This preaching is to BOTH SIDES. Grow up!
A friend asked me if I thought a small minority should have enough power to over come the vote of a majority. I had to think about that for a while and I concluded, yes. ADA would not be here, if a small majority of which I am a member of, did not repeatedly chant, protest, write letters, storm law makers offices, and spent decades working the trenches to assure that those with a disability can earn a living too. So in that regard and to people who are in danger, harassed, and disfranchised because of something that 'marks' them. Then yes.
So, Gay should be allowed to use the word Marriage?
I don't know. If I was to have a lesbian partner, I am flamboyant enough to figure, we come up with our own label. The deaf came up with Big D Deaf to distinguish from the medical term deaf, hearing impaired, audio deficient, and other labels. Gay people do have all the CIVIL rights of a Union like marriage in the State of California. Rather than throw so much money into trying to get something that Straight folks (in the majority) do not want. Why not have a PR for a new phrase?
Ah, but then that would make them STAND OUT. So maybe this is a way that GLBT can stay in the closet on some level? Chris and Chris Somebody, could be anybody in the marriage licence department.
I do not see however, GLBT being second class citizen because the word MARRIAGE is not granted to them. A WORD folks, not a set of laws, a WORD.
Socially, people would be more effective if they said they are married, and keep using that word until gradually it gets more and more accepted. It is a slow way, but effective. The current mudslinging, its all out angst, emotional violence, is not solution. No one is going to let the other side win, because they now have been wronged. All its gonna do is point fingers at nothing but anger.
So, lets GROW up and find an adult, polite, civil way to handle things. Sheesh, this is worst than a preschool sand box fight and a lot more dangerous. All of you who took part in in this hate should be ashamed of yourselves on both sides of the line...
Nancy Louise
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