A very precient article in Charlotte's LGBT paper

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Especially when you talk to a gay or lesbian individual who says they have no interest in politics.

Although I wish we lived in a world where rights were secure for all — the fact of the matter is — we don’t. I can’t imagine anyone in the LGBT community is feeling particularly comfortable with the state of affairs in this country right now.

The vast majority of gays and lesbians believe that sexual orientation is genetic. Determined before birth, in other words. Let’s accept that as an axiom: we’re born lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual. Most of the population falls into that final category.

Those of us who don’t, have suffered discrimination, violence, hatred and even death from members of the hetero camp throughout history. That, too, is an even more indisputable axiom.

In 21st century America the fundies are much more civilized about their homophobia. They couch it in key political phrases like “traditional values,” “protecting marriage” and “activist judges.”

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1. forgot the link

http://www.q-notes.com/editorial/editorsnote_050705.html

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2. Wow, that is a very profound article

It really hits home. Thanks for posting this.

We do need to remember to keep fighting. The fundies and neocons are not going to stop until they wipe out every right we have if we allow them to do so. The only power we have is to fight back with every bit of might we have.

They have lies, fearmongering and numbers. We have the truth.