Well I saw some good news today. CNN recently did a poll found that 56% of people believe the truth that we do not choose to be gay, it is just who we are and therefore we could not change to being straight if we want to. Most of us probably want to solely so we do not have to deal with the outcasting of gays and so we can have our own kids.
In other good news it showed that 51% of Americans now support at the least Civil Unions with 27% of that supporting gay marriage. So are we going to see the repealing of the hastily passed laws and amendments banning gay marriage or civil unions. I don’t think in the next 5 years we will see that, but I do think we will see fewer of those laws or amendments being passed. The reason I say this is as long as the staunchly religious bigots (who could probably come up with a religious reason why african americans are not human if they wanted to) have money and promise to bite the head off of any politician who oppose them, very few politicians will be willing to stand against them. However, over time more people are going to see them for who they are, bigots, and they will lose credibility.
I do see all this as good news. It means we are continuing to make progress. Will things ever be ideal where we do not have people who want to outcast and humiliate us. NO. Just like african americans, just like hispanics, just like woman still have those who are racist or do not feel they can do the jobs, homosexuals will always face the challenges we face today, just against a smaller number of people.
So what is the next step. Going after the only place in America where admitting to being bigots is praised. The military. Traditionally, and still today the military has proven itself to be the biggest bigots in America. This is visible in Don’t ask Don’t Tell, the discouraging or refusal to let women fight on the front lines, even the segregated units where the african american units were sent to the most dangerous battles so fewer whites were killed. We need to convince the government sponsored bigots to admit that gays are human and that we can fight for our country as well as anyone else. Getting rid of government sponsored bigotry would be a huge step in the right direction.