All Gays should always vote
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It is my hope that all GLBT New Mexicans will vote in every election. Please register to vote and find your polling place. Together we may help bring about change in our governments to acknowledge and support us in our efforts to educate the public that homosexuality and gender are not choices but biological situations. We deserve government protection from descrimination and the equal access to governmental services accorded to our heterosexual brothers and sisters.
GLBT civil rights are being trampled on every single day. We are not afforded the same liberties, rights and freedoms of our heterosexual brothers and sisters. It is the ultra-conservative that choose to define us biblically instead of scientifically. When religious doctrine instead of imperical evidence is allowed to dictate policy, people who do not fit within that doctrine become the oppressed and outcasts of society.
Our only hope is to bring the voice of reason and logic to our country supporting strong scientific evidence that we are as natural as any other creature on this planet and being homosexual is a natural, biological part of humanity. When enough people see the truth of this, only then may we hope to win our protection from those in our government who would unjustly oppress us.
The challenge, and I hate to actually write this, is to get the Stupid Bigot vote. The Democratic Party needs to identify some emotionally charged issues on which to capitalize.
Substance is good, but people usually make decisions for emotional reasons, not rational ones.
* "Stupid" because it was a blatant attempt to divert attention from far more substantial issues that played against the Republican Party. "Bigot" because the only reason people got emotionally excited about the issue was due to bigotry. What other basis is there for a Constitutional Amendment whose sole purpose is to prevent a group of people from ever having a specific freedom?
Judy Foreman, a columnist for the Boston Globe, wrote the following in the last paragraph of this article, Link
"...Dr. Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the basic conclusion is already clear: Homosexuality, he said, "is not due to voluntary choice. None of us as kids sat down and said, `Do I want to be attracted to members of the same gender?' " "
If it's clearly not a choice, then it cannot be an issue of morality. We need to support and empower the investigators and scientists who are objectively researching homosexuality. It is their voices (and reports) that may one day win us our freedom from oppression. It has always been the light of scientific fact and reason that has dispelled the shadows of fear and ignorance.