OT - Politics, Religion... the taboos

[spazzdog]

I believe no one and every one speaks for the gay community. We are no different than the straight community excepting for whom we choose to love.

We are democrats, repulicans, independants, socialists. We are doctors, lawyers, ditch diggers and military personel. We have children by birth or by adoption. We are christians, jews, muslims, buddists and atheists. We are every race. We wear dresses, pants, shorts, sandals, skirts, high heels, oxfords and go barefoot. We travel around the world or never leave our home town. We are your neighbor, your sibling, your aunt, your uncle. We are your child, your child's best fiend, your niece or your nephew.

We are everywhere, in every country. That is what I know about the gay community.

As to eleviating the issues facing my community... I don't have the answers. All I know is the first step in this very young country of ours, is for people to stop being so concerned about what goes on between consenting adults. My marriage (if I have one) has nothing to do with a straight marriage. The U.S.A. is mine as much as it is anyone elses... and I pay the taxes to prove it.

And for the record, marriage is a religious union. If my religion allows marriage why should anybody elses religion care. A legal union is what you get the license for (and pay your state) and something which all people of age should have equal rights to.

spazzdog - who's done all the "cerebral" stuff she can today.