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Discrimination is immoral. Enough said.
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| Contributor | Guy |
| Last Edited | Guy Jun 06, 2005 10:06pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Thursday, May 12, 2005 04:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I’m hearing both gay and straight people say that the long string of losses we’ve faced at the polls around marriage equality are really our own fault; our community pushed too hard and too fast, they argue. The prominent theme being generated is that we have failed to “educate” the public about who we really are and to get beyond the stereotypes of leather people, butch dykes, circuit boys and drag queens—and that it is now our obligation to reintroduce ourselves to the American people. I also repeatedly hear that it’s up to us to reframe the terms of the debate away from “moral values” to simpler concepts such as fairness, which polls indicate resonate most with the public.
I disagree. This is nothing more than the blame-the-victim mentality afflicting our nation generally and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement specifically.
Rather than reframing the debate away from moral values, we must embrace them. Or more precisely, the utter immorality of the escalating attacks against LGBT people. And, equally, the utter immorality in the failure of so many people of good will to stand with us. It is time for us to seize the moral high ground and state unambiguously that antigay discrimination in any form is immoral. |
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