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I don’t mean in anyway to diminish the importance of today’s holiday or the invaluable history-altering contribution of its namesake. I don’t even mean to draw a direct parallel between the ongoing civil rights struggle in our country and current day politics. I only mean to say we can and should draw inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 60’s.
We have major political party leaders and religious leaders in this country who have no trouble preaching bigotry right into a TV camera or in print or online and a media that gives them equal deference to those who believe in equal rights. Despite all of our progress as a country, homosexuals are treated as second-class citizens in this country while leaders hide behind the Bible and the Constitution to justify their hate. And although I still support him overall, we also have a president who won’t stand up for a community that helped put him into office in 2008.
Whether its access to marriage or adoption rights or simply the ability to visit a dying partner in the hospital, it’s time to demand these privileges for all to hold every state to a higher standard and shut down the voices who support hate - regardless of party, generation, race or region.
Hopefully, 2012 is the year when we outside of the gay community speak even louder to tip things towards fair, logical and humane social progress for all.
(stepping off soapbox)
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