If you tolerate this…..
September 20th, 2005 by timelady
….then your children will be next.
I just read this interplay on Fark.com.
I am tolerant of gay people, i could care less, UNTIL it becomes a PUBLIC MATTER. THEN THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE ON IT.
No. Not just no, hell no. We don’t get to vote on your rights, we don’t get to vote on the gays rights. Rights don’t get voted on, period. Either everyone has them, or nobody’s are safe.
Its true. Either we all have rights, or noone does. Rights arent things we can vote on, they are intrinsic.
Or maybe not.
Maybe sometimes you have to shove society towards enlightenment, and set up rights enshrined in laws, until a few generations later wonder what all the fuss was about.
Or maybe not.
Maybe we are so hell bent wired for tribalism and us v them you cant.
I want you to think about a quote on this.
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoeller
I am one of them. For them is all of us.
