Reply #90: I've read most not all of your posts on this thread. I did not glean that

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you were "not quite straight." I don't feel membership is required to comment as I am quite comfortable posting opinions on racism...mostly because I deplore it. I just think your first post practically criminalized a whole lot of people who didn't deserve it.

I think you and I came to terms by taking each other head on..I don't shirk from a confrontation, but after reading several of your responses to me, I backed off as I could hear the support in your words of anger.

I guess I also disagree that anything is lost..again, using the civil rights era as a corrollary, we certainly can't deny that things appeared to temporarily get worse before they began getting better (although I am still not satisfied with the progress America has made on race).

To be honest, I never had any real intention as a gay woman to get married so I've not really been on the marriage bandwagon and felt civil unions would have sufficed..but the MORE THEY want to take away any possibility, the more I wish to pursue them.

I don't want to live in a homophobic world any more than I want to live in a racist world..and I refuse to let racist and homophobes dictate the terms of the debate.