My freedom linked to others -- including gays

[WhollyHeretic]

A nice article by Leonard Pitts JR.

I'm not here to argue sexuality. I just find myself intrigued by the idea that if you're not gay, you shouldn't care about gay rights.

The most concise answer I can give is cribbed from what a white kid said some 40 or so years ago, as white college students were risking their lives to travel south and register black people to vote. Somebody asked why. He said he acted from an understanding that his freedom was bound up with the freedom of every other man.

Among the things we seem to have lost in the years since that white kid made his stand is the ability, the imagination, the willingness, to put ourselves into the skin of those who are not like us.

Full piece:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/16243773.htm

[MadMaddie]

1. He writes great articles...

[WhollyHeretic]

2. I haven't read to much of his work

but I like what I've read.

[personman]

3. “I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."

"The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."

-Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist 5/18/1814 – 6/19/1876

[WhollyHeretic]

4. Nice quotes

:thumbsup: