Writer's Block: Agree to disagree

[i_amthecosmos]

[Error: unknown template qotd]My view is, if they don't reject me, I don't reject them. If we can be friends, then we can be friends. The thing is, my views are so extreme to my location (flaming liberal socialist commie living in the Deep South), that I would have a very small group of people to hang out with if I started those sorts of restrictions. Also, I enjoy good, funny, interesting people of all inclinations.

But I can't tolerate bigotry. I can't tolerate being mean to others based on race or sexuality. That shit's gotta stop. I won't support it. So being against gay marriage might be a dealbreaker. (Unless you're a crazy-ass radical like Gay Shame who wants all marriage abolished, then at least you're consistent.)

Comments

[fakeplasticsnow.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. I had a falling out with someone because he thought homosexuality was a mental illness. :/

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

That's a good reason for a falling-out. I had a cousin stop speaking to me when she found out I was pro-choice. No loss.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

I was in my twenties and married with kids during the Civil Rights Era. I used to say that I could never travel to the South, because I would not be able to keep my mouth shut (about prejudice) and I'd probably be lynched, or at least, run out of town.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but you might have been right. My mother was working in Birmingham at the newspaper during that time, and remembered when a civil rights volunteer from the North (A Unitarian named Viola) was murdered by the Klan. Nobody at the paper had the slightest sympathy for her, saying that she should've stayed home and taken care of her kids. My mom couldn't say a word.

And now, Birmingham is the most liberal city in the state (although our only serious competition is Hunstville), the Mayor and City Council have been majority black for decades, and the area I work in elected Alabama's first-ever openly lesbian State representive a couple of years ago. Things do get better.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Thank God!