Exposure = Change

The following was posted in a South Carolina newspaper online this morning. While we were having bagels at our favorite babel place this morning, I read the same article. From looking on the Internet, it would appear that it is being printed in many papers all over the nation.

What’s important - what me must continuously keep telling ourselves, is that these issues are being talked about, and not swept under the carpet. We are a minority in this country, yet our issues are being talked about big time. Agreeably, they are not always discussed in a positive light. But, bigotry has to openly surface to be addressed. Only then, can we see change start to happen.

The fact that these issues are being discussed will open people’s minds more than anything else. Just look at what is happening in Texas with the gay adoptions. Just a year ago, I doubt that would have been an issue for the GOP.

Gay and lesbian activists are tearful in Washington state, joyful in Connecticut and angry in Texas after a series of legislative votes that reflect America’s tumultuous, seesaw debate over whether to broaden or narrow their rights.

Connecticut, in a historic step last week, became the first state to approve marriage-like civil unions for same-sex couples without the prodding of a court order. The same day, however, the Texas House voted to bar gays from being foster parents; the next day, the Washington Senate defeated a major gay civil-rights bill.

In Alabama, meanwhile, lawmakers considered a bill aimed at keeping books tolerant of homosexuality out of public schools. A despondent lesbian activist, Patricia Todd, told a House committee: “I feel you all hate us.” (source)