JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR

[rm]

If you think that my equality under the law - MY CIVIL RIGHTS - is legitimately and appropriately the subject of a vote...

If you think that LGBTQ people shouldn't have the right to marry people of their choosing or be protected from things like job and housing discrimination...

GET OUT OF MY LIVING ROOM.

This journal is that living room, and I am not here to entertain you while also begging for crumbs of respect.

Comments

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

The fact that it even came up for plebiscite baffled me - but then, so much about American politics does.

Anyway, word.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Well said.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

The only hope I can wring from events is the baffled RAGE with which my 12 yo son responded to the news this morning. Because OF COURSE it shouldn't be an issue.

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*grumble* Beyond rational discourse right now.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

O.O

Who comes into someone's journal and insults them that way?!

If anyone here is begging, let it be me, because you are someone I look up to and admire.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It was on my friendslist. It is not longer on my friendslist. Obviously, my public entries are accessible for anyone who wants to read them and civil discourse (of which I have a pretty broad definition) is always welcome here. However, I don't want people being all "well, see, I read her stuff, I'm not a bigot" or "well, she's entertaining eventhough she's queer" or whatever other bullshit I'm sure someone or other is thinking going on. Obviously, people are gonna do what they are going to do, but I'm so pissed right now!

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I remember having a conversation with my (at the time)8yr old daughter about prop 8 (CA). Once I explained to her what it was about, her words were 'that's stupid!'

exactly.

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. I'm not sure what happened to spark this entry but anyone that would even suggest such a thing needs to be dunked in a big old vat of WTF stew.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

This.

[toujours-nigel.livejournal.com]

aye aye.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I was 11 in 1972, and thought much the same. Haven't changed my mind since.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

The way it was written in the voter's guide in WA, it was made pretty explicit, "vote against this and you're a bigot." The only argument against 71 was "gays might marry omgomgomg!!" I'm glad that we seem to be carrying the day in WA, but dismayed beyond telling at how close it is, and at how many other states are being flooded with the ignorant hysteria of anti-gay rhetoric. It's SICKENING.

seriously wtf is wrong with people. wtfwtfwtf.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. Never mind your living room, I'm taking names of people who peddle this trash in the village green too. If you can't wrap your mind around equal protection under the law, then you should be made to be too ashamed to admit it in public.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I like you. I like your brain and the places it goes, but I've never thought that you were here for my entertainment. I consider it a privilege to sit in your living room.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I am sorry about the wide blase radius of my anger right now.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

You have been heard and agreed with.

If I were better with my words today, I'd type something more profound than this. But yeah, you're right and you deserve better.

We all do.

[ckd]

I don't think you have anything to apologize for there. I'm not exactly taking the Maine results all that calmly myself, and I'm not directly affected by them.

I'm also unhappy that WA 71 was anything like close. I think the campaign against it pretty decisively blasts the "oh, if we just let them have their MAGIC WORD they'll support equal rights" argument out of the water. (Also, giving up to them on that just lets them move the Overton Window. DO NOT WANT.)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

You don't have anything to apologize for.

Your anger is normal, expected and understandable.

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty damn speechless angry myself, so yes. Exactly.

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

I wish more people were of that sentiment.

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

Your anger is justified.