something relevant to anyone of the LBGT community...

[May-chan]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18473074/

*sticks a big middle finger up at republicans*

If that gets vetoed, I swear this country is a big shit hole...

[Rowan]

I could argue both sides of the debate. Its not right to provide special protection for particular groups of citizens. By the same token it isn't right that some citizens are singled out. Ideally everyone would get uniform protection across the board that was equally effective and wholly unbiased.

In the wake of horrible events like hate crimes, if people pushed more for equality under the law instead of special measures to make it worse to hurt certain groups, I believe we'd be moving faster towards equality. You can argue that by demanding special treatment they're trying to "level things out" but it really just skews things in the other direction which drags the entire problem out longer.

Sorry, I didn't mean to opine.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

I'd say that there is NOT as much of a valid case for discrimination against military, police officers, and the elderly at the present time. Well, the elderly sometimes have trouble getting promoted, so that could be taken care of, but I don't think I've EVER heard of someone getting beaten on the street specifically for being old...