Reply #25: hlthe2b... [View All]

[foreigncorrespondent]

...we have given our fellow DUers the benefit of the doubt, more times than I can count on one hand, but you tell me, what are we meant to do when we are faced with a gay marriage thread that has turned heated because people are saying things like:

"Oh great! Now Bush* has won in 2004."

"Can't you queers just shut up until after the election?"

"This is a wedge issue."

"Face facts the majority of the country isn't supporting your efforts for marriage." (What surpises me with this one is the simple fact that the majority of the country doesn't support the FMA either, so this one is blatant bigotry AFAIC.)

"The queer community is souly responsible for Bush* winning the 2000 election."

"Don't like us, well go join the GOP then." (This one actually got said to me, a foreigner who isn't even living in the U.S.but have a huge interest in the issue of gay marriage there.)

"Well stay home on election day and don't vote."

And I could probably go on and on about what is being said to us, but what is the point?

We have sat back. We have taken more hits on the shoulders than you could ever imagine, but now, we are tired, depressed, and warn out. It isn't you that is facing being deemed a second citizen, it is us.