Reply #28: Yes, and I feel as if we've nowhere else to go but downward

[theHandpuppet]

Is there no depth to the hatred and bigotry? I guess I started crying because this is all getting so hard to take. On June 1st my partner and I lost our joint health benefits because the state of Virginia -- yes, Mark Warner's Virginia -- passed gay-hating laws so severe that such benefits were outlawed even when companies wanted to offer them voluntarily! So here I am with MS, no health insurance, with me and millions of other gays being humiliated and persecuted at every turn, with state after state passing laws to deny us even the most basic human rights and dignity. This doesn't begin and end with "gay marriage" -- they don't want us to have ANY RIGHTS AT ALL. They just want to hate and make it a popular, flag-waving, Bible-thumping movement. What the hell country is this? Germany of the 1930's? Should I sew a pink triangle on my clothes and be done with it?

I'm still shaking as I write this. People keep saying that we should keep our chins up while we sit back and watch our most basic rights ripped away one by one. While gay people are still being murdered just for being gay. While lives and families are destroyed.

Well where the hell are the leaders of this so-called Democratic Party? Courting our votes on the one hand while booking another appearance on the 700 Club with the other? Where the hell are they? I'm waiting. Or is this going to be greeted with yet another round of silence from the party?

I probably shouldn't be posting right now. After watching the spectacle of Bush and his roomful of pastors smile and smirk through his hate-fest I can't even focus on what I should be doing. Those of you who didn't actually SEE it didn't get the full flavor of what went on and what was said. Bush actually looked as if he was going to break out laughing at any moment, at the same time I was breaking out in tears.