Comments on: Majority Favor Legal Protections for LGBT Americans http://biggaynews.com/majorities-of-adults-favor-legal-protections-for-gay-and-transgender-people/2324 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:54:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dude Campus » Blog Archive » QC World Headlines http://biggaynews.com/majorities-of-adults-favor-legal-protections-for-gay-and-transgender-people/2324/comment-page-1#comment-35557 Dude Campus » Blog Archive » QC World Headlines Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:41:28 +0000 http://biggaynews.com/?p=2324#comment-35557 [...] United States - Majority favors legal protection for LGBT Americans. [2] [...] [...] United States – Majority favors legal protection for LGBT Americans. [2] [...]

]]> By: Dave http://biggaynews.com/majorities-of-adults-favor-legal-protections-for-gay-and-transgender-people/2324/comment-page-1#comment-35517 Dave Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:39:36 +0000 http://biggaynews.com/?p=2324#comment-35517 Brad, if that's true, then why has every ballot initiative banning Equal Marriage passed in every state where it was raised except one? I'd really like to think Americans overwhelmingly support the idea that GLBT people are human beings. Unfortunately, I just don't feel like most people do. If they did, then why do groups like MoveOn refuse to incorporate GLBT rights into their platform, why does the HRC have to endorse candidates that openly reject Equal Marriage, and why are there no GLBT people in the Senate and only two in the House? There aren't any GLBT governors that I know of either. When Kay Hagan ran for Senate in N.C. against a gay man, she buried him in the polls- and he was more qualified than she is. Even then, she never felt the urge to even discuss GLBT rights-when questioned, all the way to the election, she simply refused to discuss the subject. If the majority of Americans saw us as human beings worthy of equal rights, then the subject of our equality would not be controversial. But it is, so controversial that Democrats run away from us and Republicans win voted by promising to attack us. This survey may well represent the America we want to live in. But it's not the America that exists. Dave Bart Brad, if that’s true, then why has every ballot initiative banning Equal Marriage passed in every state where it was raised except one?

I’d really like to think Americans overwhelmingly support the idea that GLBT people are human beings. Unfortunately, I just don’t feel like most people do.

If they did, then why do groups like MoveOn refuse to incorporate GLBT rights into their platform, why does the HRC have to endorse candidates that openly reject Equal Marriage, and why are there no GLBT people in the Senate and only two in the House? There aren’t any GLBT governors that I know of either. When Kay Hagan ran for Senate in N.C. against a gay man, she buried him in the polls- and he was more qualified than she is. Even then, she never felt the urge to even discuss GLBT rights-when questioned, all the way to the election, she simply refused to discuss the subject.

If the majority of Americans saw us as human beings worthy of equal rights, then the subject of our equality would not be controversial. But it is, so controversial that Democrats run away from us and Republicans win voted by promising to attack us.

This survey may well represent the America we want to live in. But it’s not the America that exists.

Dave Bart

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