Reply #30: I know. If I had to defend my Polyanna version of the public in court

[niallmac]

I'd lose. I am not gay so any attempt on my part to say I 'feel your pain' is BS. I am me however, with gay friends in the grave, gay friends moving the hell away from here because it is so
intolerant. It is not openly intolerant here. It is insidiously intolerant in that syrupy way, in that fabric woven floating in the air constantly kind of way that is designed to slowly, without embarrassing anyone let the gay person feel 'unwelcome' way.

People weren't cooking Semitics in their ovens in 1920's Germany, true, but they weren't in the streets defying the government in the 1930's either. Everyone is focused on their own survival. The thing that can save all of us IMHO in these most dangerous times
is a sense of community. If the Dems can convince the blue collar worker victim of financial corporate apartheid that the discriminated gay will one day be the discriminated white straight guy then we are getting somewhere. It's like a Union. British Air shut down because the kitchen workers walked out. That's the way it's supposed to happen!

I certainly did not mean to sound naive. I am not. Sometimes it's hard not to shit my pants when I see what is happening around here. I do not feel safe either.