This is my opinion and it does not necessarily reflect the opinions of any LGC member or their pets.

I believe being a Liberal means I accept another's existence unless they threaten me and mine--I have guns. Brusque and curt, that's it.

I support LGBTQ+ and people of all races even though I'm an old white straight married man. I'm 72. Never in my seven decades has a gay person or a trans person or a non white person ever ever come to me and hassled me for being who I am. I don't respect people who look like me and go up to "others" and hassle them.

In this new era tainted by orange mist, I will continue to advocate strongly for equal rights under the law for all. Such a 14A leitmotiv might appear in some of my posts. Back in the day that angered a few folks. Sometimes it'll be that way.

Here are quotes and the link to the article that prompted this post.

Republican lawmakers in the Idaho state legislature have authored a resolution demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn its 2015 decision recognizing marriage equality throughout the country.

House Joint Memorial 1 was introduced last week by the House State Affairs Committee. Although it is a nonbinding resolution, the legislation would make a formal declaration by the Idaho House of Representatives, calling for the Supreme Court to allow states once again to determine whether same-sex marriages should be recognized within their jurisdictions.

The resolution makes the false assertion that the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges “causes collateral damage” to other constitutional rights, “including religious liberty” — a common refrain of right-wingers who believe their conservative beliefs should outweigh the personal freedoms of others.

“The Idaho Legislature rejects the Obergefell decision … [and] calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse Obergefell and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman,” the resolution states, citing errant and outdated beliefs regarding what constitutes a “natural” union.

https://truthout.org/articles/idaho-rep ... -decision/

This is how they are going to "show harm" that people being who they are can be made illegal. I reject their premise. >ptui< The article is in-depth and links out to important cases and rulings.

CDF

CD well said, I agree in my 73 years of crawling and walking on this planet I have come to the conclusion that people of all color and sexual orientation have just as much rights to live their lives as they want to as long as it doesn't bring harm to others. If the truth be known many of the so called Christians and other rightwing bigots would not have allowed Christ into their homes because of the color of his skin since he would have been of middle east people.

To me the issue doesn't add up to a Duck fart in Africa.

All folks need to find happiness in any and every good way.

Personally, the "Religious Handbook" is indeed "The greatest Story Ever Told".

SR

CDF, amen, my friend. Having entered my 83rd year, I feel like I'm reliving the bad parts of the 50's or Deja Vu, all over again.

Take care Wino, live in the present and look and talk about the future. I hope to live to my 80s and even longer. People who have had cancer generally don't live to an old age, but look at Jimmy Carter who had brain cancer and lived to 100 years of age. Maybe we'll live to 100.

I'm a few years behind you folks--I'm only 63.

I might be a bit to the left of where you would find yourself on the map from PoliticalCompass(dot)org. Or not. Don't know, and in this context, doesn't matter.

I've long been a supporter of gay rights for the same reasons y'all cite. Same for the rights of people with, um, more pigmentation in their skin to thrive (not just survive).

I've grown up in a racist society. I recognize some of the pre-historic reasons why racism might be a thing (fear of "others"), but my life experience doesn't support such fear. When my mom was a kid, her family was poor enough that she could look out her bedroom window at the "Black" part of town, and she told me that she saw her Black neighbors being good to each other and doing family and neighborhood gatherings on the regular, and decided for herself that such people were far better than the racists "uptown" from her. She taught me the importance of that (among other important life lessons!).

But because our society was so racist, I learned racist behaviors that I've had to unlearn. I keep an eye out for less obvious things, now, like figures of speech that are prevalent in our language but that have racist origins, so that I can eliminate them from my verbal repertoire.

Let's keep encouraging folks to be tolerant of others. At least until some of those folks show their intolerance and lose the protection of the civil contract of tolerance. That's on them.