Saturday, February 12, 2005

Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination...no matter how you slice it

For the third time in three years, the House has passed anti-gay discrimination legislation. House Bill 1515 would make it illegal for gays and lesbians to be discriminated against in areas such as jobs, housing, and obtaining insurance. It is NOT a bill to support gay marriage, so why would anyone not want a bill like this? Of course, a Republican Representative said that this "would draw attention to differences instead of similarities". Oh, so let me get this straight (no pun intended) an Amendment to our beloved and dearly held Constitution that would bar gays and lesbians from having a legal definition of marriage draws attention to our similarities??? Puh-lease...it only draws attention to our differences and wants to drive a wedge further between the hetero world and the gay world. Simply put, discrimination is discrimination is discrimination...no matter how you color it or wrap it up. No group in society should be discriminated against...PERIOD...and as for the leaders of Black churches chiming in with Bush's hatefilled agenda, they need to keep this in mind, that it was not too long ago that our beloved Constitution considered African-Americans 3/5 of a human being. Discrimination has an ugly history, no?
Posted by Tina :: 6:30 PM :: 1 Comments:

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