Gay Rights
Oct. 3rd, 2006 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessOk, I am not going to cut and past the meme that is going round because I strongly disagree with the premise that anyone who doesn't copy it doesn't support gay rights. That's just silly and unfair - there are numerous reasons why people wouldn't want to spam a meme on their own journal - lack of support for gay rights is just one among many. To word it the way iot has the meme is effectively blackmailing people with guilt and accusation - yeah, that's going to win us sipport.
Besides, spamming your journal with a gay rights message hardly makes you a paragon for the cause, 'kay?
Rev Phelps will not silence himself for a meme (actually let him talk because he makes 'phobes look so bad). Pat Robertson will not deck himself in a rainbow flag because a few dozen people on the net were guilted into posting on their journals.
I am glad, thrilled, ecstatic that there are so many people out there who believe in equality for homosexuals (I doubt ther eis a single person on my friends' list who doesn't) - making them all announce the fact won't achieve anything but annoy them.
there is a lot of work that CAN be done to support gay rights. Spam your representatives. Spam the homophobe organisations. Send messages of support to all of the groups supporting gay rights - post their linmks and banners - these can all help. Guilting friend's lists doesn't.
[EDIT To ADD: reminded by KLGAFFNEY - in no way do I blame or otherwise snarl at the people who followed this meme - I appreciate the very sincere and good intentions these people had in posting it and it does warm my heart to see people standing up against homophobia - I am more snapping at the opriginal author (asusming said author was trying to drum up gay support and doesn't have another motive)]
Besides, spamming your journal with a gay rights message hardly makes you a paragon for the cause, 'kay?
Rev Phelps will not silence himself for a meme (actually let him talk because he makes 'phobes look so bad). Pat Robertson will not deck himself in a rainbow flag because a few dozen people on the net were guilted into posting on their journals.
I am glad, thrilled, ecstatic that there are so many people out there who believe in equality for homosexuals (I doubt ther eis a single person on my friends' list who doesn't) - making them all announce the fact won't achieve anything but annoy them.
there is a lot of work that CAN be done to support gay rights. Spam your representatives. Spam the homophobe organisations. Send messages of support to all of the groups supporting gay rights - post their linmks and banners - these can all help. Guilting friend's lists doesn't.
[EDIT To ADD: reminded by KLGAFFNEY - in no way do I blame or otherwise snarl at the people who followed this meme - I appreciate the very sincere and good intentions these people had in posting it and it does warm my heart to see people standing up against homophobia - I am more snapping at the opriginal author (asusming said author was trying to drum up gay support and doesn't have another motive)]
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Date: 2006-10-03 02:09 pm (UTC)But i do wonder at the foolishness of it. If someone presented you with a poll question worded in a similar fashion you would laugh at them.
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Date: 2006-10-03 03:08 pm (UTC)I wish I had the time to rant properly :D