feeling heated

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who i am is discriminated against in the country i live in. our [glbt people] worth as full citizens of this country is compromised and we're apathetic about it! here we have obama, someone who is as familiar with communities who have not enjoyed their full civil rights and someone who knows so intimately the issue of civil rights can turn around and say "this is a difficult issue and we could maybe come to terms with these people." what is that? we should be treated equally. for a man who uses his words to communicate his dreams about this country he's awfully weak on this. gay people are again pushed over to the shelf for later; how can gay people feel otherwise? either you think we are equal and deserve rights of heterosexuals or you do not. you either believe we are full citizens of this country or you do not. guarantee equality for everyone in this country. gimme a break. cut through the bs. if you want to say the american people are not ready to extend the american dream completely 100% to glbt people. fine, say it. then own it. then we can deal with it and see it for what it is. but sidestepping the issue and saying we have to wait a little bit longer. i'm sorry, i don't care if you don't agree. nowhere in the constitution does it say in order for us to get along that we have to agree on everything. but we do have to treat people equally under the law.

i don't care what your religion says about gay people. if your religion said people missing a leg should be shot, you can't do that in this country. you can have that opinion but you don't get to make policy for the rest of us. we have a constitution that says we treat people equally how obvious does that get. this country did not extend full citizenship to everyone when it was written and this country still has that problem...but we're moving in a better direction. slowly. why do we have to wait until it's "right" or why is there so many of us denied full citizenship that hear ourselves saying "things will be better eventually, when the country is 'ready" for it. no! i don't have to settle for that. for someone who's grown up instilled with the ideology of this country i don't have to settle for that. i want my civil rights. i want equality, now. why aren't we all saying this? why, with all of our social networks with the sheer volume of voices are we not making more noise?

i want religion to stop playing a part in our politics. it's not healthy. why does our government brown nose up the ass of christianity? i don't want your ideology in my government. again with the equality! we have people of all kinds of beliefs in this country why are we adhering to one belief system. why do we atone to one book, one religion because yes, it's big and powerful but it's not equality. it gives these people who are extremely judgmental and demeaning too much power. this is not a theocracy. get your religious issues out of my government and my rights. separation of church and state - so why have we had so many faith-based initiatives? i wrote a research paper about homeless teenage glbt kids and the abuse, neglect and dismissal by organizations that could be helpful to them but are not because they are faith-based. here we have a president who raised funding for organizations to help out the homeless populations in our country but only if they are faith-based. forget about this marginalized population of teenage kids who because they can't find a safe place after being rejected from their own families or having to find a safe place because their home was too dangerous to live in - have nowhere safe to go. forget about funding the organizations that may serve marginalized populations. forget about supporting all of the people in our country; especially those that are hurting the most. the suicide rate among these kids is staggering.

i feel like rational thinking has gone out the window the last eight years and i'm so scared of rational thought continuing to struggle in the direction this country is going. then we have this election and who is to say things will really shift in a significant way. i really hope so. i hope for rational minds to prevail.

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