Gay History, One Man's Memory

[fredv3b]

Thanks for your reply.

But you see, that is what has been going on since the beginning of time.

Absolutely, which is why I am sure it won't change.

Accepting anything outside of equal rights is settling. It doesn't matter how you package it, it's still settling. There are people who think as you stated and I honestly don't have a good argument. Take what you can get now and worry about getting more tomorrow. That just doesn't sit well with me. I shouldn't have to take what you are willing to offer me. Nor should I have to accept what you want to take away from me. We are either all equal or we're not.

So you accept that you care more about the principle of equality than practical legal rights. That is a perfectly reasonable position, but not all of us share it.

I think the point I was trying to make is by accepting what they choose to give just continues the discrimination. I'm not sure how else to say it. There was a time when the heterosexual community had rights A-Z. The homosexual community didn't even have A. Now they want to give us A-F. That isn't anywhere close to equal.

I'm old school. I don't want you to 'allow' me to have A-F. Give me A-Z or keep it. You don't get to decide how 'equal' I am.

Who does get to decide?

This is not an ideal world, an anyone who thinks it ever will be is, in my opinion, a fool.

If the choice is between table scraps and nothing, I'll take the table scraps.

Your example, from VA, shows how fickle executive orders are.

Short of SCOTUS, ruling that the Constitution mandates same-sex marriage, gay workplace protections, etc., etc. I don't think you are going to be happy. If I was an American, until and unless that happens I would play the dirty game that is politics.