Reply #4: Absofuckinglutely absurd. [View All]

[Lyric]

It doesn't HAVE to be one or the other. It's not like anyone was forced to choose between voting for Obama and voting for marriage equality. Voting for both was certainly an option, and a lot of people did precisely that. And it's not like 70% of gay people voted for the white guy because WE'RE too worried about our own rights to care about black rights. In fact, I don't know a single gay person who DIDN'T vote for Barack Obama. We certainly didn't have any expectation that Obama was going to be a savior for gay people--quite the opposite, in fact. We voted because Obama was better for ALL people.

This person implies that gay people are some massive, stereotyped cartoon that just doesn't give a damn about anyone but themselves. Well that's fucking bullshit, and insulting as hell to boot. Freedom is like love--more for you doesn't mean less for me. And if the people this LTTE-writer is talking about are truly too concerned with their own rights to worry about what they perceive as "white" rights, then why the hell would they join hands with the two of the biggest white-run churches in the world--one of which banned black people as a matter of course only thirty short years ago--in order to deny gay people of ALL colors equality under the law?

Anybody who refers to gay rights as "white rights" is either stupid or willfully blind. Sure, there are more white gay people than black gay people in America. There are also more white women than black women, more white disabled people than black disabled people, and more white poor people than black poor people--if you look solely at head counts, which is the ONLY way that "gay rights = white rights" makes sense. Does that make women's rights, disabled rights, and poverty relief "white" rights and issues? Once again, black GLBT people are ignored and brushed aside as irrelevant, and this time BY a black GLBT person.

Face it--the problem is NOT black and white rights. The problem is religious narrow-mindedness, and people of ALL colors allowing their religious leaders to remove their common sense and replace it with bigoted doctrine. Trying to paint this as black vs. gay is insulting and unfair to black people, gay people, and most of all, black gay people.