As Democrats, I think we need to own up to our responsibility when it comes to Gay rights.

[Mike 03]

How can we honestly, or in good faith, justify shuffling this off to the side as not important, anymore than my parents would ever try to shuffle off their responsibility for obtaining equal rights for African Americans?

Respectfully, to all my friends here at DU (and we may agree to disagree, and I still love you), this is not an issue we can abide comfortably with or shuffle off to the side as something to tackle down the road or "in the future." This is not a "future concern" but a Now Concern, just as the rights of African Americans were in the 1960s, or Women in the early 1970s.

This is about the essence of who we are as a nation and what we stand for as human beings.

What happened today in California, regardless of the technicalities, was a hateful affront to common sense, the Constitution and just plain fairness.

It may well be true that this was a legal issue resting on a technicality that proved not to be true, but basic rightness needs to be taken into account now.

We are well beyond the point of technicalities when it comes to basic rights. That argument is an embarrassment to everything we supposedly stand for.

A thing is either fair or not fair.

The Constitution is clear as a bell.

If a man wants to marry a man, or a woman wishes to marry a woman, this is NOT a nation that should stand in the way.

It is repulsive, and it is against the Constitution, and against everything we supposedly stand for, to argue about technicalities when it comes to basic issues of fairness.

We need to not just talk the talk but walk the walk when it comes to the subject of equality and Democracy.

My heart goes out to the GLBT community tonight.

What happened today was shocking and wrong.

[liberalmuse]

1. I can't live with this. It's unacceptable.

I can't watch fellow human beings continue to be treated like second class citizens. It's hard to fathom what the people who are claiming victory over this atrocity are getting out of it. Do they even look at the faces of the people they hurt today? How do we explain what happened today to the children? You've got to be a soulless piece of shit not to let this get to you. I'll be out this weekend protesting. I don't know what else to do. How do you get people to see they're wrong? To evolve?

[Hepburn]

2. I feel the same way....

...watching those homophobes act like they did something good...:puke:

They HURT people ~~ and for no good reason. What? You don't agree with someone's religion ... so you have lesser rights? You cannot have a state sanctioned legal relationship with the person you love?

Fuck that.

[Divine Discontent]

3. thank you. as a Christian I am ashamed of those in my faith who declare I do not have the right to

love another adult as I am led to in my spirit and purpose. You don't make 'butterflies' appear in your stomach by accident. For all that have been in love, you know what I mean. And you're gonna love whoever you are led to love - no man or woman should stand in the way.

I'm going to have a hard time staying in this country if the SCOTUS goes against equal rights, and doesn't reject that a religion, whether it be Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc., can dictate laws in our land and say ONE group of people can do this, but another cannot!

[Zodiak]

4. I agree

Equality for all or we have equality for none.

[TheMachineWins]

5. Just move on, fix the economy first, it's only been 100 days, "far left"!!!

Why hold anybody accountable for anything, let's just put it all behind us and move forward as if nothing every happened. Who cares about torture, healthcare, equal rights, war, civil rights, bank crimes, cronyism, corruption of any kind; let's just change thing for the better!

Sarcasm (Off)

[Mike 03]

6. Thank you for the responses. I'm actually so depressed tonight I can't read them, but I promise

that I will ASAP.

Best, friends.