abby--i once again encourage you to shake the yoke of your parent's influence.
when ppl on this board talk to you about the economic situation, they are actually only humoring you.
you mention the 70s-80s as a time of prosperity. actually, if you were as knowledgeable as you claim, you would know that this was the period where the gay community was being ravaged by HIV. during the initial outbreak, information and measures to prevent its spread were opposed by the religious right on the grounds that they would promote promiscuity (turns out they're still doing it). in hard terms, the religious right is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths that could have been delayed, or eased, or prevented altogether.
you are a long time poster. you must have noticed that people are always wondering why all the new shows are not comparable to the old. where are the innovative choreographers, lyricists, etc., etc. the general consensus, however subjective, is that they died of HIV.
now, you can disagree with people about the economy. but what you are insane to do, is to speak as if this community should welcome people like romney, ryan, bachmann, palin, who are cut from the same cloth of individuals who are directly responsible for the deaths of their friends and colleagues. that they should just forgive them and move on, even though those folks (like the disgusting billy graham) have not even hinted that they're sorry. the religious right should be apologizing for this awful behavior. they call me militant but i haven't heard enough apologizing for this hideousness, and i will never hear enough in my lifetime for all the lives they've ruined and destroyed and negated.
but instead of an apology, we have young people like you, who say, it was okay for them to behave that way. it was okay to let thousands of people die of HIV. people like you and mikey can then pretend that it's gotten warmer and fuzzier since then, but every bit of evidence is to the contrary. it's okay to boo a soldier who happens to be gay. it's okay to use taxpayer dollars to lie to him about his sexuality and give him junk explanations for it. it's okay to lie to children who happen to be gay about what it is and where it comes from. it's okay to lie to an entire continent and say condoms are worse than HIV. vote for that if you wish, but that just goes to show you can have a great education and still not know anything.
and the truly sad part of all this is... it doesn't need to be this way at all. there are fiscal conservatives like olympia snowe and susan collins who have reasonable social views. people like billy graham would never ever vote for obama, they don't need to be swayed or courted. instead, the republicans kowtow to this disgusting element of their party and let them run the show. and instead of punishing them for it, americans like you reward them for racism, bigotry, deception, misrepresentation, and lies. strong work.
Updated On: 11/5/12 at 01:50 AM
