Reply #31: You're not asking us to give up 3% of our taxes, you're asking us to give up our humanity.

[last1standing]

Even if for 'just a little while longer' you're asking - no, telling - us to forgive those who are working to harm us in every conceivable way. This is why we are becoming embittered. Our so called friends at DU want us to "forgive" people who haven't even pulled the knife out, yet.

It is very, very easy for someone who is considered a fully fledged human being in this country to tell us to wait. You don't have to sit there worrying that tonight someone you care about could be beaten to death for an action so mundane as going out in public. You don't have to hear an orderly tell you that your blood isn't good enough for a dying relative. You won't turn on the TV to be greeted with a show centered around "Not that there's anything wrong with that" and understand that they've just made your life a running gag.

You have marginalized us with your own words until the old people die off. Did you ever consider some of those old people are GLBTers who would have liked to have tasted freedom before they died?