Reply #517: I'm not gay, but I'm tired of DUers treating Gay issues as anything other than vital.

[Evoman]

Anybody who tells gay DUers not to talk about civil rights until after this or that election is not a friend of gay people. The problem is, there is always the NEXT election, and that NEXT election is always more important.

Enough.

I stand with our LGBT brother and sisters no matter what. I will never make their issues secondary, since I know that if I were in a position where I could not marry my fiancee it would not be acceptable. If I lived in a world, for example, where hispanic people like me couldn't marry...if DUers told me on a daily basis that it's not as important as the economy or whatever, I would be WAY less understanding that gay people on DU have been.