Reply #347: As do I

[FloridaJudy]

Look, I'm straight, and I'm appalled at some of the homophobia I see around here: search anything that references a "pony". Wanting basic human rights is not equivalent to being disappointed that you didn't get some luxury item for your birthday.

Same sort of people probably told African-Americans to sit down and be patient during the sixties. Well they did - smack dab in the middle of the schools, courthouses and lunch-counters. And we're a helluva lot better country for it: not perfect, but much improved. We don't hang black people in front of the city hall any more, for one thing. I look forward to the day when no one ties gay teens to fence posts and beats them to death or bullies them into suicide as well.

I was a tad too young to join the Freedom Riders: I still had a 9 o'clock curfew on school nights. But if the GLBT community wants to do the same they can count on at least one gray-haired little old straight lady to join them.