Gay Rights Rally:The Way To Democracy Is Winding...

[shondradawson]

I am watching the Gay Rights Rally in Washington, DC. today.

The voices raised today are homosexual, they are Black, Hispanic, and Asian, they are Christian, Jew, and Muslim, they are Democrat and Republican, they are Capitalist and Socialist, they are native and foreign, they are young and old. Yet they all resound in one call: the call for each and all to look to the person next to them as a fellow citizen, to look to the person next to them as a neighbor. With the patience and understanding that comes with time, possibly a friend.

When I was young, my grandmother told me the person I turned away from could have been my best friend, the love of my life...God does indeed work in mysterious ways, and the person standing in front of you may not be showing you the only place they will have in your life. Never burn a bridge, never turn your back, and never be sorry for hoping for the best when it comes to people.

Miracles are not like lightning in a storm: they are like matches struck in an attic: what you see is not sudden, so much as shocking. It is shocking to see all you forgot was done, and can still be done, if you can remember all that's inside of you.

It is not true The Bible condemns homosexuality. The Bible recognizes it only as a sin, and then, one among many. Far more often in the Bible, it is the indifference or antipathy, hatred and judgement of your fellow men, your neighbor, that fills chapter after chapter, passage after passage of Scripture. To deny the Holy Spirit in all things, to defy the grace of love and faith in all life, to diminish the hope of salvation and deliverance is the greatest sin, indeed, the only sin for which one cannot be forgiven.

It is not true homosexuality is a choice. Science has recognized it as a trait in human beings that is neither hereditary at birth nor ingrained in early childhood. Heterosexual parents have bred homosexual children for generations; homosexual parents have raised heterosexual children for generations.

It is not true homosexuality can be taught. Human civilization cannot successfully and completely indoctrinate through its respective cultures for its people to be physically, sexually, or romantically attracted to whom it accepts by custom or convention. Cultural standards may force or impose relations, but they cannot make you lust or love the imposition.

So what is the truth?

The truth is, when a collective group of citizens in this country are denied fundamental rights that are exercised by all other citizens in this country, they are being discriminated against, treated unequally, for singular or marked differences, and that is unconstitutional in this country. You cannot make or revise the laws of this land to isolate, alienate, or deny a collective group on the basis of gender, race, (religious or political) creed, or (regional or foreign) nationality. Period. End of discussion. No debate.

The truth is you can dislike homosexuals. You can dislike Black, Hispanic, or Asian; Christian, Jew, and Muslim; Democrat and Republican, Capitalist and Socialist or Communist; native or foreign, the young or the old, but you cannot deny a person simply because of these singular or marked differences and your dislike for them. What you must do is uphold the government of the United States of America.

The truth is the United States of America is constituted as a democracy. Rather, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written to establish this nation as a democracy. It did not succeed at its inception. It did not include: Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jew, Woman, and Homosexual. But there are citizens in this country that would like to see democracy fulfilled. Alas, there are citizens in this country that would like a government that only includes them and others like them.

The truth is...that is not a democracy.

A true democracy may be achieved in a mysterious way that simply includes everybody...

Either gender, any race, any nationality, any religious or political creed, any nationality, can be homosexual.

Here's our miracle...

and I see and believe in it.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ..and one does not have to be homosexual to believe in and fight for the rights of gays.

A right denied to anyone, is a right denied to all.

As Ben Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"

[shondradawson]

2. Ah! I have not read that line from "ol' Ben," in awhile.... thank you!

[MadMaddie]

3. Nicely put shondradawson!

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[MindandSoul]

4. Gay Rights Rally = Human Rights Rally!

Thank you for this outstanding expose! I totally agree with you and you have expressed in a few, inspiring words what I have KNOWN within me for many years, even as a heterosexual woman, married for 38 years, a mother, and a grandmother.

The kind of Democracy you are describing is the one I want my grand children to grow in. I want them to know tolerance, acceptance of diversity, all kind of diversities, and to respect and love their neighbors, no matter what their race, gender, sexual orientation, and social status.

It is time for ALL of us to grow up in acceptance and respect of all!

[shondradawson]

5. What a lovely reply!

It is marvellous to hear from voices and backgrounds such as yours...let's hope to hear from many, many, more in the struggle for "a dream deferred."

[MindandSoul]

6. Dream deferred. . .but not for much longer!

Yes, I am wholeheartedly with you in this struggle to gain full human rights for ALL.

And I am not the only one. My husband, my 4 adult children and their spouses, and several of my friends are also supporting . .I was going to say "your" cause. . .but it truly is "OUR" cause, since it relates to human rights.

I do hope and pray the dream will not be deferred much longer! Keep the faith in our President.