I May Have To Change My Vote
Last week, Barack Obama posted an official statement regarding Gay Pride Month on his web site, BarackObama.com: Pride Month is a reminder that while we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1968, we still have a lot of work to do.
Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.
It's time to turn the page on the bitterness and bigotry that fills so much of today's LGBT rights debate. The rights of all Americans should be protected -- whether it's at work or anyplace else.
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' needs to be repealed because patriotism and a sense of duty should be the key tests for our military service, not sexual orientation. Civil unions should give gay couples full rights. And those who commit hate crimes should be punished no matter whether those crimes are committed on account of race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.
This Pride Month, let's make our founding promise of equality a reality for every American.
posted by Jason Sechrest at 10:47 PM
3 Comments:
"Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us."
Don't forget Jason, that politicians, regardless right or left, always exploits LGBT issues for their own political career. These candidates can serve as many beefs as they want, but once the king has chosen, they all quickly take their beefs away and not bother sharing them.
Jimmy - I love you. You always manage to offer the polar opposite spectrum as the eternal pessimist to my eternal optimism. lol xo L, J.
And now you know why I always doing badly on multiple choice (Bad enough that it took me 3 times to pass written test for driver's licence, lol)? I look at multiple sides, and 90% of them does make sense.
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