My heart feels like it has broken a little bit - re Indiana [View all]

[JustAnotherGen]

I know there is a lot of back and forth in GD and amped awareness about the illegalities of the Pence approved Law. I'll leave that out there in GD.


Back here - my heart is breaking. No - I'm not LGBT - but I 'feel' it. That sick feeling.

Consider - my parents married in 1969 and my dad got immediately got stationed in Kentucky. That was the year of Loving v. Virginia. The idea that people could be so cruel - and want laws to allow them to be cruel in this day and age - blows my mind and breaks my heart.

And I cannot for the life of wrap my heart (not head - heart) around the idea that someone is so stuck in their hatred and bigotry that they wish to make less profit.

My dad was a man stuck in his ways for many years - it was the hyper macho inflation of manhood given to him by his service as a Military Officer and in the Special Forces. I remember Tail Hook and my dad saying (I was near graduation from high school at the time) - "Let someone else's god damned daughter liberate the United States Army."

And in between that time and DADT - he had this major shift. He had been an arch pacificist at that point for about 15 years. And something clicked - how can we ask people to NOT serve honorably? Because that's what DADT was. And he knew had served with gay men in the closet (in the late 50's, 60's, and 70's) and one had saved his life. It was just fundamentally wrong.

And then marriage equality came to New York. And he was so staunch in his belief that it was absolutely the right thing to do.

I can't help but think - he's rolling over in his grave today saying, "This is not what fought for and took bullets for and went blind for two weeks in 1968."

You guys - this law - it's not right. And it's cruel. And it's sadistic - and well yeah -

It's just plain evil. And the realization - my best friend from high school who was finally able to get married a few years ago - she and her wife wouldn't be welcome into an establishment that my husband and I would if for some stupid reason we were to take a road trip to Indiana. And just one generation ago - my husband and I wouldn't have been allowed in that establishment either.

What you do to one - you do to us all. And I take this personally.