Great article by Matt Foreman, director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Basically, he says its time to call out those who stand on the sidelines of the fight for gay rights. In the infamous words of “Dubya”, you’re either with us or against us. For those who read this blog or this article and are straight and support gay rights in any form, if you haven’t done anything to help our cause (written/called/faxed/e-mailed a congress person, donated to a gay rights group, even just spoken up for gay rights in a group of friends), then you’re against us. It’s truly that simple. It is just as immoral to not stand up for our rights and sit silently by as it is to attack those rights.
This is a great quote:
People of good will can either rise up to speak for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, or look back upon themselves 20 years from now with deserved shame.
Perfect first linked article on http://www.TexansUnited.com
I liked this part best:
“…equality will remain elusive if we keep relying on intellectualized arguments or by dryly cataloguing, for example, each of the 1,138 federal rights and responsibilities we are forced to forgo due to marriage inequality.
The other side goes for the gut; it’s now our turn.”
May 31, 2005 @ 6:33 pm