Gay Rights at Long Last?

IF YOU'RE NOT SITTING DOWN, grab a seat. When you go into shock, its better to not hit your head on the floor. It appears that some rebublicans are starting to accept gay people! Starting to accept gay people as human beings,rather than mentally ill or morally bankrupt perverts. Some republicans are becoming tolerant, but not many. So far, no right wingers are on board, only moderate republicans like Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snow. But at least its a start. The Employment Non Discrimmination Act (ENDA) is going to pass the democratically controlled Senate by a wide margin, the only problem is, it is likely to be ignored or voted down in the republican dominated House of Representatives. In the past ten or fifteen years, the attitude of the American people, and the Americna government has changed fundamentally. NO longer is half the country opposed to basic civil rights for homosexuals. Now, only about a third of the country is, and hey, that's progress.Just the other day the first ever male gay wedding at West Point took place, of all places. If that bastion of traditional masculinity can accept it, so can the rest of us! And make no mistake; the politicians are changing because the American people are changing, not the other way around. People over the age of fifty can remember when virtually nobody spoke out in support of equal rights for gays; homosexuality was considered so filthy, so horribly wrong, that we were all afraid to even think about it, or admit that it really existed. Senator Collins pointed out that nowadays, with more and more openly gay people, Americans are finding out that gay people are our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, our family members. Hell, we could have figured that out fifty years ago, but, well, in certain ways, Americans are not always the sharpest tool in the tool shed. Whereas it is now illegal to hire or fire based on race, gender, or religion, it is still perfectly legal to do so based on sexual orientation, strangely enough. But, with a little luck and cooperation from our conservative colleagues, that will soon change. Right wing groups such as the American Council of Families are already out with inane, insipid excuses to oppose gay rights; ENDA would give special treatment to gays, it would encourage lawsuits, alter workplace culture, infringe on religious rights, and such bullshit. At long last, we are on the verge of equality.