Gay Rights-Civil Rights-Human Rights
You’ve probably all read about how you can cook a frog. If you put it in a pot of boiling water-it will jump out but if you put it in a pot of cold water and gradually turn the heat up-it will stay in there until it’s dead.
I just read about Wandy Sykes coming out and really love what she said.
“You know, I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn’t feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life,” said Sykes, 44, while speaking at a Las Vegas rally for gay marriage.
“I got pissed off,” she continued. “They pissed me off. I said, ‘You know what? Now I gotta get in your face’ and that’s what we all have to do now. They pissed off the wrong group of people. They have galvanized a community…Instead of having gay marriage in California, we’re going to get it across the country.”
I hope that we as a human race will get together and make gay marriage legal everwhere in the country-no more slowly turning up the heat-they just got dropped in boiling water. If two people want to enter into a binding legal/spiritual agreement about their life and share all the same protections and rights as straight people-let them! Like civil rights, which is not just a “black” issue but a human issue, so are gay rights. When any of our rights are compromised-all of us suffer. As a jew, woman and someone with an alternative religious practice-I say that we should all stand-not just the affronted community-whatever it is.
Goddess come in all shapes, sizes, races and sexual orientations. So do a**holes. Lets be Goddesses and work towards love not away from it!
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November 16, 2008 3:00 pm
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By Leslie, November 29, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
Right on! It’s hard to believe that anyone would be against at least providing the same rights to gay couples (like health insurance, hospital visitations, etc). I can understand, but TOTALLY don’t agree with, people wanting to keep the term “marriage” between a man and woman but that’s something for the churches to sort out, I think. Not for government. Really, we’ve come so far but still have so far to go…