homo superior

As Winston Churchill said, “Americans are always ready to do the right thing. After they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”

We have exhausted all the other possibilities.

And it is time to call an injustice an injustice.

It is an injustice that we send a gay or lesbian soldier to die in a war—to give their life for a country that won’t let them be legally bound to the person they love.

It is an injustice that a soldier gives their life for a Military—an exemplary Military in every way—except one in which they cannot have the picture of their lover cut-out in the shape of a heart and taped to their locker because that would be “telling.” Such a ugly word.

It is an injustice that, in this room, many of you pay your tax money to the very public institutions that deny you rights other Americans enjoy; pay your tax money for public schools that will not accept you as legal parents; pay your tax money for the paper on which they print the goddamn marriage licenses you cannot get.

And while you are paying your tax money for all of the above, a preacher can stand in the pulpit of a multi-million-dollar mega-church advocating the damnation of gay Americans and not pay one thin dime in taxes.