The chart here is from Voices of Central PA and the chart is realy striking! I don’t post this to merely dismiss the religious who call for “family values” but rather to point out that the fight has to be about real issues, and not just empty rhetoric.
Let me be clear again. I can even live with a long winded Council person. (Though I’d encourage even them to learn to be more succinct) What gets me outraged, are those who say they want to listen and then kept yammering on. That is disrespectful.
Watching this race and considering the candidates is important. Those of us who call Pittsburgh Home, and want it to grow and thrive must recognize how the selection of the next Mayor is critical. Let’s all do our homework, and be smart voters at the Primary.
The best defense against these extremist zealots, is to continue to broaden cultural support for acceptance of all LGBT persons. The more acceptance and respect are the cultural norm, then the more the extremists are at the fringe and less comfortable acting out in illegal and dangerous ways.
But the Religious Fundamentalists are not a joke, and the LGBTQ community needs to consider seriously what their opposition may mean for us. It should not slow us down as we seek full equality, but we recognize the lengths they will go to to stop us from having fairness and equality.
We are not talking about legislative developments here. We are talking about a specific court case: Hollingsworth v. Perry. This case came out of the District Appeal, with a very narrow scope. Correct me if I am wrong, but there really isn’t anyway that the Supreme Court could decide Hollingsworth v. Perry such that it affected the entire nation.
Blogger’s note: David posted this comment on Facebook as part of a thread to my blog post re: GetEqual’s press release concerning The Obama Administration’s brief in the Prop 8 case before the Supreme Court. Some others have commented directly on the original blog post. I thought David added lots of great stuff to the dialogue and I wanted to bring it out front, and also comment on it. So posting David’s comment here as[Read More…]
It is easy to say that everyone should be treated Equally! But how does that play out? What does it look like and getting from where we are to that point- those are the important things to be talking about.
GetEqual just doesn’t get it, if you ask me. They need to get a clue on their way to Getting Equal. It isn’t that they are wrong in theory. Yes, everyone deserves to be protected from discrimination. But few with any experience in reality, would expect creating public policy by one Supreme Court decision to the plausible step to that end.
Luke would be holding a press conference and make a major announcement, but no announcement materialized. So, here my guesses as to the three top reasons Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has been missing.