Antigay Bias Killings Highest Since 1999

One last final note, the real sad part is the support discrimination such as this has received from groups who have also been on the receiving end of discrimination for most of our nation's history.

One could easily interpret that to mean that it is unConstitutional to even pass a measure defining marriage between one man and one woman, let alone enforce it. Make all the laws you want, amend all the state constitutions, and it is still illegal, according to the Supreme Law of the Land, to enforce any mandate that treats one group of citizens differently than the rest. And that, my friends, IS the Supreme Law of the Land. And as far as I am concerned, anyone who doesn't like it can go live in Iran, Syria, or Saudi Arabia for a while, and see how they like that.

I'm arguing with people who don't even believe that gravity exists, who don't believe that species or the earth itself have evolved over thousands of years, who do believe that the earth is only 6000 years old and people coexisted with dinosaurs, and some who even reject the earth being round and that it revolves around the sun. Get a good laugh, this is what rational, critically thinking people are up against.

I would love to argue that it is biological, but what good would that do? I have presented evidence to neo-cons and fundamentalists for years and they just cling to their lies even more. I could easily talk about scientific studies dating back to the 1980s that have proven that the hippothalamus' (organ in brain that controls, among many other things, sexual desire/ orientation) in heterosexual men and heterosexual women are different, and that the hippothalamus in homosexual men is remarkably similar to that of a hetersoxual woman and the same for hetero men and homo women, but again, what good would it do?

To those who support legislation against gays, this is what you have contributed to. The complete destruction of American principles and the Constitution. No matter how you slice it, you all are traitors to what America is about by supporting this agenda regardless of how you feel about homosexuality. Your blatant disregard for the rights of other Americans is proof positive. By not recognizing equal rights for gays, homophobes somehow feel they won't have to worry about the "normalizing" of same-sex relationships. Ironically, those who oppose same-sex marriages claim to do so because they don't want these relationships waved around to everyone especially children, when it is the very act of outlawing the marriage that puts the issue in the spotlight.

I suggest the following: Let's build a groundswell among the entire US LGBT community to urge that: - all LGBT's go out and buy guns. Arm yourselves! It is your right, and also your duty, to protect yourself and the LGBT community from all the violent nutjobs who are now fipping out and killing us. - and buy not just one gun, but as many as you can afford, to include AK-47's and Uzi's. - and not just guns, but also get Concealed Weapons Permits! Let's build a movement to suddenly do this within, say, a 90 day period. Let the gun sales figures spike (like the Republicans did after Obama's election), let the media have a field day reporting on it, and send the violent right-wing the message that we're not going to take it anymore! Do you think the NRA would like this? Discuss.

And yet the Senate continues to sit on this bill. We all need to call our Senators, read them these figures and say NOW.

I voted for Obama. I'm a Democrat, always have been. Ami is free to vote for whoever she chooses. She did not waste her vote. As this article points out there are lots of folks out there that don't like us. Let's try to be nice to each other here. And hey, God knows who we all voted for and God thinks we are all beautiful people, because we are. Peace.

Glad you flushed your vote down the toilet, Amy . . . I mean, "wrote your choice in." Voting isn't meant to be a "feel-good" activity where you just "write your choice in" on a whim. Chances are your vote was tabulated electronically, so no one even got to see the choice of your "conscience," except for you and God. Might as well have stayed home. Hell, even if you don't like any of the people who actually has a shot of winning, at least pick the lesser of two evils and get some use out of your vote.

I didn't vote for Obama (nor did I vote for the other guy...I wrote my choice in) because of his stand on gay rights...or his non-stand, as it turns out. I never believed he'd be an advocate for us. I'm not a one-issue voter, but in this case, that one-issue happens to have a DIRECT impact on my life, so I couldn't in good conscience vote for him. His friendliness with Warren and (I'm having a brain freeze and can't think of his name) that other "ex-gay" preacher definitely sealed the deal for me. We can only hope Congress smarts up and listens to us and does something!!!