Reply #32: Oh for christ sake, get real.

[Atman]

You're not listening/reading. You are so far off base it's not funny, on so many different levels. Including your own pre-conceived notion of my own sexuality, simply because I disagree with laws granting extra-legal rights to ANYONE, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc. How many times do I have to state that, and how many times will you ignore it and denigrate your own position by equating this law with cutting in line at Disneyland? That is just plain ridiculous. Read slowly if it helps...the law as written devotes more resources to a crime against group a than to groub b. Period. IOW, as I stated in one of the other posts you obviously didn't read, if I get beaten to death and tossed into a ditch, unless it can be proven that I'm gay or black, the police can say, "Feh, sorry, we don't have the manpower." Will they? Probably not, but who knows, right? OTOH, if a black guy is found in that same ditch alongside me, this law provides for MORE manpower and money to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of the crime against him than me. So you're okay with defining special classes of citizens? Remember, I didn't write any slavery laws and I have nothing to do with any anti-gay legislation. Yet, this bill treats me as a lesser citizen, worthy of less attention than a gay man or a black man. You seem to be okay with it now that it is the gay/black citizen getting the special treatment; suddenly "But he did it first" is okay. That's bullshit, it sounds like the Republicans saying it's okay to lie to congress because Bill Clinton lied about Monica. You're rationalizing the shit out of your own prejudice, whereas I'm am only trying to say that YOU and I are both supposed to be equal under the law. Reparations and civil unions and gay marriage rights are serious issues which remain unresolved. But that fact does not mean that my life should be considered worth less until the time that all the other societal issues get straightened out.

We are either all equal under the law -- and that obviously includes marriage and every other right -- or we're not. You don't seem to agree with that premise. I find that very disturbing coming from a so-called democrat.

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