Expand the Civil Rights Code of 1964 June 30, 2009
Posted by proudprogressive in America, advocacy, civil rights, equality, human rights, lgbt, progressive values.trackback
The battles over piece meal legislation are like ground hog day. Our youth will live to see the Civil Rights Code of 64 expanded to include the lgbT demographic. Sign the petition and read up on Towleroad and eQuality blog – Its time we clarified unified and focused on the real prize. That is not to say stop working on legislation that is in the hopper, however our issues are money makers for the racketeers of both parties in Congress; and this country is either gonna do right by us or not. – so far its been and continues to be a clusterfuck – let’s aim HIGHER, what we really need is first class citizenship – not legal band aides. The eQuality blog is extremely informative blog with a blue print and a plan – WE the lgbtQ need Omnibus legislation , i am sick and tired of being played and played again. – we either fight for total equality in all walks of life or we languish in second class citizenship. Our children deserve better. Its time we stopped playing into the games of Congress and made our demands clear. We want the whole enchilada – at this rate we will be fighting these same battles in all corners for the next century. Lets focus on full ( non incremental) equality. The States will then have to comply. We have a constitution that declares we have a right to equality, a Bill of Rights that applies to us as well. I am personally sick of being exploited and “othered” by the politicians. Sick of fighting little brush fires here there and everywhere – time to consolidate our resources. – enough piece meal crumbs which we haven’t even gotten anyway ! Demand our piece of the pie. A big full size slice. Omnibus Legislation is the way.
I remember when Barney Frank attacked Bill Bradley for supporting this when Al Gore would not. Barney Frank’s fingerprints are all over homophobic actions by Democrats.
Sigh
I signed the Petition, although I can’t say I expect it to be put up in the Congress this year…
Thanks for the great Stevie song!
Libhomo,
I think the event you’ve described happened in 1996 – if not 1992. Perhaps Barney was too nervous to ask for it all; who knows about NOW? I think eQuality makes alot of sense. People will freak out anyway, so why not throw everything at ‘em at the same time?
They’ll put it off etc. etc. But – there it will be!
xxxxx
no blogging for a while? hopefully a nice vacation in tahiti or something for you
I greatly respect you and your opinions- if your writing is a decent representation of those anyways (I try not to assume things). I say this preemptively because I want to ask you (and anyone else who can answer) a touchy question. The list of things this ’slice of pie’ would get the lgbt is impressive. It is… comprehensive. I thought that most people had those rights already. In fact, I thought that most of them were explicitly stated in the constitution and the bill of rights– you alluded to that as well in your post. What, in your opinion, makes the lgbt community so different from the rest of humanity in America that it needs to have these rights restated?