How dare you think I need you to condone my "lifestyle!"

[Bertha Venation]

I'm so sick of this. I am so angry I could just spit. I can't even think of a coherent sentence.

I don't need to have my "lifestyle" condoned. I need to have my rights recognized!

And another thing: I don't have a lifestyle. I have a life. Same as you.

[MissMillie]

1. works for me

I could give a crap what people condone or don't condone.

I want all consenting adults treated the same in the eyes of the law.

[ccharles000]

2. ...

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

28. You're sweet.

:hug:

[Taverner]

3. I AGREE 100%

Keep this in mind when talking to those who feel they need to judge you:

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

[Kajsa]

4. I hear you, Bertha.

You also don't need to have your rights
TAKEN AWAY from you, either!

:hug:

[tularetom]

5. Don't yell at me. I don't give a rats ass about anybody's "lifestyle"

I don't condone. Condoning implies judgment and I don't judge.

And as far as I'm concerned everybody should have the same rights.

Guess I'm fucking naive. I fail to see why this should even be an issue.

[Bertha Venation]

6. The point is, it IS an issue. Doesn't matter if we don't see WHY it's

an issue.

And I'm not yelling at you.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Live and let live in peace and harmony is what I say

You want to get married? You should be able to, as long as you and your partner are consenting adults. Should be able to adopt/foster kids as well. The idiots who would block this are fearful and full of hate. May they, "like Pharoah's tribe, be drownded in the tide/Like Golieth, will be conquered."

[madinmaryland]

8. I hate that phrase "lifestyle" when referred to G&L. It's not a choice.

A lifestyle is a choice, that is made, like whether you want to be a party animal or not.

:shrug:

[AntiFascist]

14. Exactly, being a woman is not a lifestyle choice either...

(at least for most) yet, as a class of people, they have also faced oppression and have had to fight for their rights.

[KamaAina]

9. I'm KamaAina, and I condone your lifestyle

:sarcasm:

[Solly Mack]

10. True. True.

[JeffR]

11. Well said, Bertha!

:applause:

[mrbarber]

12. In a heated debate with a homophobe, they sneered "Well I don't condone that lifestyle"

My response? "You want a fucking cookie? I don't "condone" you being an ignorant asshole, but it doesn't mean I'm going to try and force my morality onto you"

Gets my blood pressure up just thinking about it. The height of arrogance and snobbery, to think anyone cares what they approve of.

[niyad]

13. my response to the nosies and busybodies who think they have a right to comment on other

people's lives, "hey, that is why they are called PRIVATE LIVES"

as I tell people, I don't understand where they get the time and the energy to concern themselves about people they don't even know. by the time I get done with my life, and the lives of my friends, I don't have time, or energy, to be concerned with what complete strangers, and even casual acquaintances, are doing. does somebody have an explanation for this?

[mrbarber]

15. "by the time I get done with my life, and the lives of my friends,"

What personal life? What friends? If you spend that much time trying to prevent equal rights for other people, what kind of life do you have?

[niyad]

20. what are you talking about? where do you get the idea that I spend time trying to prevent equal

rights for anybody? try again, sweetie, you have the wrong person.

[knitter4democracy]

16. That's exactly right. I hate that meme, too.

They use that term, saying it's a choice to be LBG or T. I call bullshit.

[Oregone]

17. How dare you think I care what you dare others to think.

:bounce:

[HEyHEY]

18. ow, my head hurts

[Bertha Venation]

19. LOL

[TexasObserver]

21. You have my support, and my sympathies. It ain't right, is it?

[Bertha Venation]

26. No, it ain't, T.O.

Thanks.

[Marrah_G]

22. Did someone here say that to you?

If so, they should get an immediate tombstone.

[Bertha Venation]

25. No. This post was in reaction to a blurb in the sidebar of a

CNN article about Dan Savage talking to D.L. Hugheley. It said "Hugheley does not condone lifestyle . . . " and I was off.

[MattBaggins]

23. I condone this message

[Bertha Venation]

29. LOL

[derby378]

24. Democratic gun owners have expressed similar sentiments for years...

...but there are too many in the upper echelons who want to keep people like me under their thumb, too.

Some forms of change are simply going to take more time that you or I would like. It sucks, I know, but I'm still game if you are.

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

27. I'm game, derby

:hug: thanks