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alison - 2013-03-27 18:39:30
I've been dancing in rage myself lately. I am often called an idealist for my belief that we can be better than this, that I am crazy but I say right back to all those people who call me idealist... HA! you admit that is is the ideal of humanity to do right be each other, to share and share alike and love everyone. Why I can, with no religious bent see this and all those religious, conservative nuts be so oblivious (I'm not talking the obviously power hungry white guys but the well meaning average folk)? It escapes me and I too am disappointed.
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Terri T. - 2013-03-27 19:00:41
I was thinking much the same yesterday when I heard the snippets of idiotic phrases from various Supreme Court judges. If THEY can't make a decision, how are the rest of us supposed to get any where? It amazes me that we have all this techological knowledge but we still can not figure out basic human rights and take care of our own people in our own country. My God, it costs $100 to adopt an animal these days...so forget about trying to adopt a human child in America ~especially if you are gay...What's going on?
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Stephanie - 2013-03-27 21:33:54
It boggles my mind, too. Add me to the Disappointed Club.
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gbw - 2013-03-27 23:28:35
in the middle of kidding craziness and finding myself absolutely furious that this foolishness continues. Clarence Thomas has a white wife for fucks sake....
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Poolie - 2013-03-28 16:55:39
I am facing my Luddite board of directors today. Thanks for the encouraging words to stand in my truth.
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Amy - 2013-03-28 17:04:32
Well, I'll take a stab at your question, even if it might have just been rhetorical. I think it's all about fear. When some people are scared, they try to control everything around them. You made a huge point when you talked about all of the change that's happened just since you were born. TONS has changed in your lifetime. Even though it's not as much as you (and me) would like, to a lot of people, the changes have been way too overwhelming and scary. If you look at polls on marriage equality, 58% of Americans now support it. Less than a decade ago, only 32% supported it. That's a huge shift in a short amount of time, and a very, very scary thing for social conservatives. They're acting this way because they're desperate and scared. The people who were once chastised and shamed for being "different" can now find strength in numbers on the internet.

Of course, when the Supreme Court ruled that bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional, their decision was only supported by 30% of Americans. This shows that back then, the Supreme Court had some guts. Now they seem like a bunch of crybaby wimps. I can see why that would be disappointing. What you're experiencing now is probably similar to women who grew up in the 1920s; casting off corsets, showing their ankles and finally getting the vote, and then watching their daughters embrace the conservative push-back in the 1950s. Things are moving in a direction of more respect for human individuality and freedom of choice, but it's probably never going to be a perfect utopia where everyone has the same ethics.
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Jim - 2013-03-28 19:43:39
Maybe it's just because I remember the 1940s and 1950s, but I do think a lot of things have been getting better. As for short term gain, just look at what a difference four years have made. During the 2008 campaign, both Obama and Biden fully supported DOMA and insisted that they deeply believed that marriage could only be between one man and one woman -- Okay, so maybe either their previous position or their current position was taken solely for political purposes, but the point is even the president & vice-president have changed their official positions on the matter.
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