I’m not gonna be popular for this… but I don’t care.
At a time of economic and social crisis, when people can’t get basic medical coverage; when people are dying in war, when thousands of voters are purged from rolls, when there are people in our own country that are zombified by a fear drum-beat to the frenzied end of plotting to assassinate President Obama; it would behoove us to get our priorities straight. I’m not going to be popular for this, but that means you, gay community.
I have spent years and money and effort supporting gay rights, and I will continue to do so. I applauded last year’s Sundance film, “For the Bible Tells Me So”, even though it made its point partly by bashing my own personal relationship ideals. I man a booth at gay pride in spite of the GLBT director’s insistence that we don’t belong in their club. I think I get it sometimes when some people think liberals are elitist.
Right now we need to be about feeding the poor. Right now we need to be about worker’s rights. Right now we need to come together and keep people from becoming homeless. Have you ever known someone in need of a doctor, but couldn’t afford it? Bring on the hate mail, but I think that’s something that trumps the right to get divorced.
A healthy and happy populace will put away hate and fear eventually. People will come to know there is nothing to fear but fear itself, and all those hate mongers will be on the wrong side of history soon enough. In the meantime, It just doesn’t look good for our party to have the affluent arm singularly obsessed with marriage. It’s a bit of a barometer to the divided state of our country; economically and otherwise.
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:55pm