(October 10, 2016 at 7:50 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I encounter the occasional intolerant remark at gay people from time to time from people that don't know.
I have noticed a trend regarding that though that makes hearing it maybe more interesting than upsetting.
Take for instance the last such comment I heard:
"I don't like gay marriages"
Kinda tepid, no ?? I still wasn't happy hearing it, however, think of all the gay rights issues since the Stonewall riots. This complainer is up to speed on all of them, apparently, except the last one.
I probably shouldn't be annoyed at all. One of the first things I heard after I came out (this was '76) was an offer to beat the shit out of me, just for being gay.
Not liking gay marriage is pretty evolved over that.
And all in my lifetime.
Sure, it's a process. That's why I don't piss on my dad's grave for being the unrepentant racist he was. As much as I despise that view of his, I know him as a whole person, and know his goodness in other areas, and that is what I think of when I think of him ... even as I work to undo the legacy he and his generation bequeathed us.
Much as I imagine that as much as he despised minorities, when he knew one personally he could cast aside his own bigotry. That fact gives me hope.
History is indeed a march of progress. We've gone from killing outsiders to killing adulteresses to killing witches to killing people who want to take our oil.
Pretty soon we'll just be killing people who beat us in online MoH or championship Yahtzee.
