Charles M. Blow: No Country for Old Mores

[kpete]

Respecting the full humanity of another only broadens the humanity of the self.

No one asks that you affirm and approve the behaviors in another’s bedroom, only that you respect the boundaries thereof and keep your limiting measures and limited imaginations out of it.

Sex, sexual and gender identity, and all proclivities of intimacy are personal and not to be dictated by committee or community. We must each follow the wanderings of our heart to find the place where we feel affirmed and fulfilled, both spiritually and physically. And as long as that is between consenting adults, that destination should be sufficient.

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We are greater than our base elements. We feel — love, sorrow, a need for connection, the pains of longing. And we aspire, in our greatest hours, to justice. S.B. 1062 and the Republican preoccupation that fuels it was simply not our greatest hour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/opinion/blow-no-country-for-old-mores.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140227&_r=1

[My Good Babushka]

1. Admitting that they don't really believe the whole

anti-gay thing they've been at the helm of for the past decade, they are just using it to court votes. An ever shrinking pool of pinch-faced, mean votes.