The only thing that saddens me a little about the NY Gay Marriage victory

[Mike 03]

Is the gratitude.

You have deserved this from the beginning of time, or at least since the Constitution was authored.

Yes, it is awesome, but there is no question that this is a slam dunk. Men and Women should be able to marry whoever they want to, and it is nobody's goddamn business who it is, who likes it and who doesn't.

It is just a little bit sad to me that we have to be grateful for this development.

I just hope this spreads to the entire world. It is so obvious that the time has come to revere the rights of the GLBT community.

Cheers, but this has been too long in the coming.

[RKP5637]

1. And in some states in this country it's going to be a long long long time

before anything like NY got gets passed. At some point the Federal gov. is going to have to mandate gay marriage be allowed. Our state just reaffirmed it's illegal to be gay. That's how far along some states are in time reversal, being regressive and just loving bigotry and repressed rights.

[alphafemale]

2. There are still highschools in GA that hold racially segregated proms.

How heartbreaking is that?

[RKP5637]

3. OMG, I didn't know that, that it was even legal to do that. It's horribly heartbreaking. And the

US thinks it's the model of equality for the world ... true, way better than many countries, but we could do far far far better.

[alphafemale]

4. It's legal because the school doesn't have anything to do with it.

They are private parties.

[alphafemale]

5. Here's a link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html

[RKP5637]

6. Thanks! n/t

[RKP5637]

7. I have hope in the youth. Parents, many, have stayed backward in a number of

things. Fortunately many youth IMO seem progressive.

[alphafemale]

10. I know a certain number of white kids do attend the "black prom" and are welcome there.

I don't know how comfortable black kids would feel at the white prom. For one thing I'd imagine the music at the "white-prom" would make blackened belly button cheese look good.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

8. I Am Sick and Tired...

of having to be grateful every time we get ANYTHING, especially when this is supposed to be a country where all are equal. In CA during the protests against Prop H8 were going on, some bigot at Huffington Post opined that if we were so ungrateful when we had civil unions in CA, then he was starting a petition to get a proposition on the ballot to take even those away. I guess we were supposed to bow down and kiss bigot ass.

I just get so tired of the need of some, for whatever reason, to separate and discriminate.

[RKP5637]

9. So am I. It goes on year after year, decade and decade, the same hateful

bigoted crap by those programmed to be hateful and bigoted, never questioning why, but following their blind commands in their minds. They make a farce out of equality and what this nation was built upon, and they do it to people of all walks of life, race, sex, and sexual orientation, it's quite a list they've compiled of whom to hate and to be bigoted toward.