Comments on: An Extraordinary Year For Gay Rights https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/02/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Midnight Rambler https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/02/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights/#comment-19058 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:17:47 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1799#comment-19058 Drivebyposter, it’s not leaps and bounds, but it was only 12 years ago that I was driving through Vermont – the most progressive state in the country – taking pictures of all the barnsides painted with TAKE BACK VERMONT in response to the state Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriage should be allowed, even though it ultimately allowed “civil unions”. And there were a lot of those barn signs. But since then, an issue that most non-gay people never even thought about has become a no-brainer for anyone with a conscience, and support went over a majority this year.

So yeah, it sucks that the bigots are holding it back, and it’ll be some time before we get there. But it’ll happen.

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/02/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights/#comment-19057 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:06:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1799#comment-19057 Not to be overly pessimistic, but I think it’s fucking depressing that this is extraordinary progress. I don’t disagree that these things are relatively big steps…but they really should be small potatoes in “the land of the free.”

]]> By: Brother Yam https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/02/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights/#comment-19056 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:39:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1799#comment-19056 Speaking of Minnesota, I wanna let y’all know about Teh Win that is this letter…

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