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dbzeag

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As Chimney and I celebrate meeting on Gen[M]ay 20 years ago this summer, it's Pride season. While I am disappointed how commercialized it has become, and just how corrupt in Houston it is, the point of the visibility that is represented is still 100% required even today. As the ruling for the original Roe vs. Wade is put into question, many later court rulings used the same doctrine including same-sex marriage and being the legality of sodomy itself. Texas still has on the books an outlaw of sodomy as well as same-sex marriage. If these cases come back to the court for a ruling, and they use the same verbiage as the Roe vs. Wade case, these laws can be reinstated. The outright government-sponsored abuse and invasion of privacy or trans people and their families in Texas also needs to be brought into the light and challenged and at no other part in the year should this exposure be most vivid.

Thank you for all the support that you give me, but I ask in the spirit of this season to support others as well. Just even hearing their story helps. Discouraging jokes about trans people or alternative lifestyles and backgrounds also helps. If you are scared of offending a gay person, or don't know what to say or how to act, just ask them. If you don't know what to call someone, ask them. You are not offending but rather it shows you have initiative, that you are trying, and that speaks volumes. People that are not in your normal circles are not necessarily your enemy if you approach them with good intentions.

But can we all agree that the Target Pride collection is an abomination on all human kind?
 
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Know that if those ratfuckers try to roll back any of ya'll rights, we still support you.

And you're right, being passively supportive aint good enough anymore. You have to be actively anti-whatever. Anti-bigot, anti-racist, anti-homophobe
 
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Capital Pride Kiss GIF by Identity
 
ZRH said:
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

2A ALL THE WAY

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Marriage is not a constitutionally-defined right but rather a court-interpreted right, subject to review from future court cases.

Same, interestingly, with equal rights for women, etc. The Civil Rights Act is a law that interprets and clarifies the constitution, but doesn't not explicitly give equal rights to all people. That was supposed to be added by the Equal Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment defining legal rights regardless of sex. This basic addition is still not legal.

So, unfortunately, all of this can be taken away quite quickly/easily.
 
dbzeag said:
Marriage is not a constitutionally-defined right but rather a court-interpreted right, subject to review from future court cases.

Same, interestingly, with equal rights for women, etc. The Civil Rights Act is a law that interprets and clarifies the constitution, but doesn't not explicitly give equal rights to all people. That was supposed to be added by the Equal Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment defining legal rights regardless of sex. This basic addition is still not legal.

So, unfortunately, all of this can be taken away quite quickly/easily.
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Well, technically all rights not enumerated are supposed to be reserved to the states and the people. Judicial overreach though and whatnot
 
kiwi said:
I don’t understand why government has to be involved in marriage at all. As long as you are able minded consenting adults do what you want.
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The classic argument is that the government has an interest in promoting procreation etc.
 
kiwi said:
I don’t understand why government has to be involved in marriage at all. As long as you are able minded consenting adults do what you want.
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i mean, marriage equality is basically saying that. That states cant block two able minded consenting adults from getting married.
 
Domon said:
i mean, marriage equality is basically saying that. That states cant block two able minded consenting adults from getting married.
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Heck I don’t care if it’s 5 adults. If you can consent do what makes you happy!

*queue all the Mormon polygamy jokes.

But seriously, let’s get government out of marriage completely.
 
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fly said:
BTW acceptance = commercialism. Welcome to the fold! :lol:

Also, here is a pic of @shawndavid trolling some idiots outside of drag queen brunch thing.
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Actually a lot of the corporations that "accept" queer folk also donate to politicians that hate queer folk, it's just good business.
 
Hoff Kinkmeister said:
Actually a lot of the corporations that "accept" queer folk also donate to politicians that hate queer folk, it's just good business.
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Great. That has nothing to do with my reply to @dbzeag though.

Straight people have been dealing with commercialism in our relationships for years. It's just how it works. And the fact that it has grown into Pride, and the LGBTLMFAO movement as a whole, is just part of the process. It should be welcomed, not something to be upset about IMHO.
 
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