This post comes from the wonderful Sheila Kennedy on the American Values Alliance site.
In my upcoming column for the Indianapolis Star, I report on our city’s Pride celebration, and point to the immense progress that has been made since I began attending such events in 1992. As I put it, “The crowd was huge, and broadly representative of the diversity of the gay community and those of us who support them. There were young people pushing strollers, old folks like us, and parents with teens. We saw doctors, lawyers and bankers—people who would have been terrified to attend seventeen years ago, when being “out” might mean losing a job—or worse, a family.
Today, when a quarter of the country’s population lives in states that recognize same-sex marriage or its functional equivalent, when polls show that people under thirty support gay civil rights by huge margins, the mood at events like Pride is less defiant and much more celebratory.”
All true. But when you are building a road to a desired destination, it is sometimes necessary to erect appropriate caution signs....MORE
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