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[rm]

While there are a hundred reasons why straight people openly specifying that they are straight and also support the rights of GBLTQ people to marry their partners is a useful thing, think of the power of this:

Just saying that you support it. Without mentioning your own damn orientation.

Because I know it's not always or even often distancing when someone says, "I'm straight but I support gay rights," but trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me, when I tell you that's what it can feel like from over here.

Just try saying it without qualification. Picture _that_ as an LJ meme. You know?

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope, not at all. I'm not personally offended by it, so much as frustrated with it, because there are the good reasons -- like those you mention and what askeladden said above about the Olbermann Special Comment -- but I do think those good reasons often mask other subtexts that need to be discussed as a group, if not on an individual basis.