I’ve pretty much given up on the fight over guns.
It doesn’t seem to matter that, like me, an overwhelming majority of Americans object to our lax gun laws when our elected politicians are in the grip of the National Rifle Association.
It’s no surprise in the wake of (another) mass shooting of innocent victims, this time in Orlando, efforts on gun control flicker to life. But after so many defeats I’m inured to any chance of their success. Seems it’s just fine with our politicians that regular people, and even those on the government’s terror list, can have a personal arsenal, including machine-gun style AR-15s.
So if we were to accept that as a society we are armed to the teeth, it would behoove us to have fewer enemies.
When it comes to gays, that’s a tough one for many Americans.
More than any other demographic, gays and lesbians are the targets of hate crimes.
It was no coincidence that the venue of Sunday’s massacre was a nightclub that catered to gays.
In reading responses by the gay community to Sunday’s massacre, they were overwhelming reports of ostracism, fear and hate by society.
States, including Kansas, are fighting same-sex marriage. States, including Kansas, have enacted laws that discriminate against gays in the workplace. States, including Kansas, treat gays as if they are second-class citizens by calling them “un-Christian” and robbing them of the death benefits typically bestowed on the passing of a spouse.
ALL WEEK we’ve heard politicians professing how much they “love” gays and how they’re “good” people.
“My heart has changed,” said Spencer Cox, Utah’s Lt. Gov., citing Sunday’s shooting as a personal turning point in his views toward the LGBT community.
Prove it.
Stop the bigotry.
Enact laws that protect those of every sexual orientation.
