Comments on: Enough is Too Much

By: Kwizgiver

Kwizgiver — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:31:48 +0000

I’m swiping this video to use with the Civil Rights Team at my school. Along with a couple of articles from People Magazine (of all places) that deal with the same topic.

By: meggie

meggie — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:20:55 +0000

Any type of discrimination is just obscene.

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:53:44 +0000

mrschili: I posted about the LAW, and while it may seem I fishbellied on it, I needed to say that stuff so anyone, meaning you, who wants to have a discussion with me about legal matters will know “where my head is at.”

Later.

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:04:54 +0000

mrschili–Private conduct may be, at times, in violation of the “spirit” of the Constitution, but the Constitution basically governs what government can and cannot do, not individuals. As I said in a comment on my blog, I’ll address some legal issues in a post.

By: mrschili

mrschili — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:41:42 +0000

You can’t really tell, but there are two links in my comment above - I linked to MLK’s Dream speech at “pointed rhetoric” and to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution at “patently unconstitutional.” Go check them out…

By: mrschili

mrschili — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:39:31 +0000

Auntie, I’m not crazy about “fighting words,” either, but I think they’re appropriate. The Civil Rights movement required the use of strong, unapologetic language; Martin Luther King advocated non-violence, but he employed some pretty pointed rhetoric.

I’m not sure that conciliatory - in action or language - is what we should be aiming for right now. My contention is that the treatment of GLBTQ folks is patently unconstitutional - illegal - and we (both GLBTQ folks and any straight people with a sense of ethics and social justice) need to stand up and DEMAND that GLBTQ people be afforded the rights they’re guaranteed as citizens of this country. It’s fairly obvious, from the current conditions, that no one’s going to hand anyone anything without some kind of fight…

By: whodoesshethinksheisanyway

whodoesshethinksheisanyway — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:50:03 +0000

I think we need to also look at the language we use. I don’t like the agressive words. “Fight out loud”, the “war on drugs”. Stuff like that. I just don’t like the message it sends…

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:49:47 +0000

What can I add. My latest post discusses this issue.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:19:12 +0000

Thank you Mrs. Chili.

As an older gay man, help from non-gay people has always come as a welcomed surprise.

For me, your help really warms my heart and shines a bright light on hope.

None of us knows what the world has lost due to the smallness of some people. One of these victims might have been the key to world peace or some great discovery to cure the ills of man. We will never know.

I only know we can not remain silent.

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:37:09 +0000

mrschili,

No need to apologize for asking that all human beings be treated with dignity and respect. Should be a fundamental right for all, huh?

Dr. B