Reply #21: I know, and it's FUCKING WRONG. Too long, too much suffering.

[The Doctor.]

And now, with hope at our fingertips, every day is a new eternity. It's relative. For decades there was little option but to quietly weather the inequity and suffering. Now that there exists an atmosphere in which equal rights can be fully realized, we are going mad with the proximity. Believe me... I know personally what it is like.

Obama has done more for LGBT rights than all other Presidents combined... and in less than TWO YEARS. It is precisely this climate which makes it so difficult to accept that he has not already brought persecution to an end. But he can't. The President is not God, or a Genie, or a Wizard. Could he do better? I'm sure of it... but how?

We are looking at the end of LGBT discrimination before the next generation ascends. We could be looking at going from ss marriage being a nonesuch in the mid 90's to becoming a reality 20 years later.

Given the history, that is 'instant gratification'.

I'm sorry, I really am... but think of how long it took blacks in the US to win civil rights. We are still seeing racial discrimination to this day.

Equal rights are inexorable, and perhaps, because of that, the nearer the completion, the more excruciating the trip.

I hate that being a realist gets me labelled a 'homophobe' or worse, but I'll fight this battle from here in reality for the sake of my brothers and sisters because I too want rights secured, and the battle concluded, sooner than later.

And I'll always listen to constructive suggestions.