I feel that I am fair on this issue. When the Liberal Group tried to do it to Conservative Group, I spoke out against that.

I agree with you – we do not need the cyber police here.

I completely agree, civil rights should never be in the hands of the people’s majority, but in the hands of the government’s majority, which is Democratic now.

Yet we still same to be making the same amount of unprogress with the majority power.

The problem – which we both agree on – is that the government is washing their hands clean of these issues by throwing them to the states, just like the government did in an attempt of save face with abolitionist and the well, crazy slave owners. If we keep this up, only God knows what will happen next, but either way it won’t be pretty…

I mean, these were the same fellows who proclaimed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone and kept men, women and children like chattel.

“…angst over the fact that many feel that civil rights has become an issue to be decided by a majority – something our Founders would not have approved of.”

Soo… was it a tiny minority who decided to overthrow the British occupation here or was it the majority?

Isn’t the foundation of democracy based on majority rule?

Didn’t we get the ball rolling a lot faster when the “majority” ruled in favor of CIvil RIghts in the 60s, rather than the minority?

Further, we are seeing that with the rise of the greatest democratization tool – the internet – more and more people are becoming cyber-police. People are starting to try to curb freedom of speech in such a manner as to stifle real freedom.

I do hope that more people comment.

The Right has a long and storied history of couching violent threats (which all-too-often result in violent actions) in what they proclaim to be free speech. Everyone from the KKK to these AFTAH bastards have created an environment where it’s okay to use lynch-speech against gay people (and others with whom they disagree); now that these same unsavory tactics are being employed by the traditionally oppressed minority, the already-inflammatory AFTAH people are calling the FBI.

All while only recently this same batch of Christians protested the Matthew Shepard Act under the cry of “thought crimes” and fear-mongering centered around the speech of pastors from the pulpits, which often includes graphic exposition on how gay people (and others) are going to spend an eternity in fiery torment with demons torturing us relentlessly. I can’t think of anything more terroristic than that–and these pastors, as you well know, mean every venomous word of what they’re saying. There’s a solid precedent for violent actions by followers acting under the guile of this belief–actions which have destroyed and claimed lives in what can only be described as a Cold War Crusade.

Now, AFTAH is fulfilling their own paranoid predictions about thought crimes in an interesting reversal of roles. I’ve been a very regular reader of Joe.My.God for over a year and have never read a comment that I thought was sincerely an incitement to violence or genuine support of militant action by the gay community. But just like the fight for African American civil rights produced two factions intent on the same goals (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. vs. Malcolm X), I fear that if extremist hate groups like AFTAH are left unchecked, the same philosophical disparity will emerge in what has been been a REMARKABLY peaceful gay rights movement. There are already far fringe groups within the gay community (Bash Back is one) which are attracting the most disenfranchised of our youth.

The potentially disastrous results of a violent movement will hurt everyone. Like 99.5% of the gay community, I do not advocate a militant approach to long-deserved civil equality. How will the Christian community (which includes sizable overlap with the LGBT sphere) assist those on my side in keeping a peaceful discourse? Ask your pastors. I’d love to hear their responses…