Marriage is between a man and a woman, yet we have heard lately some extremely loud opposition to this in the media. Even more troubling is the fringe group growing with in the gay and lesbian community; a fringe, which will need to be mentored by the larger group to prevent animosity with the majority of folks and potential harmful conflict as well. Yet when this is explained to the LGBT Community they will not take responsibility for their fringe and they state; How am I supposed to "mentor the fringe". Where do I find such people? Do I go out to a meeting of an LGBT organization, and whenever I see someone being a hothead tell them to cool it? Is that what you mean? Well sure tell them to cool it, with regards to threats and insults and wanting to go break things or hurt people. But that is not the main point, rather intellectually assist their thought process and explain all the things you have told me. Such as people are people. People fear. Maybe explain to them if people are disrespected they want revenge and that adds fuel to the fire and in the long run hurts you as much as it hurts them. When kids screw up in gangs and such there are methods, which can be used to help them into a better way to challenge their energies so they can win the game. I am not saying dump the political activism, what I am saying abstractly is explain why eco-terrorism hurts the cause of environmentalism rather than helping it. Burning down something and causing millions of dollars of damage and air pollution is hypocritical to the message. Instead have them use their brains and energies in a positive way. One gay activist and transsexual partner states; And your suggestion about "mentoring" is frankly insulting to those who are very active, implying that they're young children who just need guidance. The fringe I am referring do act like young children and they very much need guidance. Big time. They are not helping the G & L Community, they are hurting the near term achievement they seek. Now long-term, it makes no difference in the over all scheme of things, it is obvious to me and should be to anyone watching that gay marriage in the US will be legal sometime in the coming decade, perhaps just after. In 50-years people will wonder what the big deal was in the first place and how could anyone think it should not be legal. Folks we need to consider all this in 2006. |
