The LGBT crowd is the privileged minority

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Isn't that why we have the World Trade Organization, instead of engaging in unilateral action that is bound to draw retaliation in trade?

Yes. Looks like we need to handle this stuff ourselves.

BTW, I was in downtown Seattle during the WTO "riot". It was a very, um, interesting experience.

 

[JackRT]

Most minority groups work hard to have their equality and to get recognized. The LGBT crowd had friends that help them get where they going and give them all everything like other minorities don't. They get everything handed to them.

The LGBT people are certainly a minority but hardly privileged. For centuries society has condemned and persecuted them frequently to the point of execution. If they had friends to get where they're at, then I must applaud and encourage those friends. If there are other minority groups whose rights are being denied then let's get on with correcting that.

A fairly large block of my fellow Christians have what could be called an entitlement mentality. For a great many centuries we Christians have had things our own way and have controlled society to such an extent that we have been able to impose our own agenda without challenge. However, when minority groups started demanding and receiving rights that they had previously been denied, rights that Christians held all along, these same Christians felt threatened and some even claimed that they were being persecuted. Rights and freedoms are not part of a zero-sum game. Expanding them does not thereby reduce them for some other group. For example, extending marriage rights to homosexuals has not reduced the rights of heterosexuals in the slightest way. In reality Christians have lost no rights and are not threatened in any meaningful way. In Canada and the USA Christians are certainly not being persecuted.

 

[Archivist]

The LGBT people are certainly a minority but hardly privileged. For centuries society has condemned and persecuted them frequently to the point of execution. If they had friends to get where they're at, then I must applaud and encourage those friends. If there are other minority groups whose rights are being denied then let's get on with correcting that.

A fairly large block of my fellow Christians have what could be called an entitlement mentality. For a great many centuries we Christians have had things our own way and have controlled society to such an extent that we have been able to impose our own agenda without challenge. However, when minority groups started demanding and receiving rights that they had previously been denied, rights that Christians held all along, these same Christians felt threatened and some even claimed that they were being persecuted. Rights and freedoms are not part of a zero-sum game. Expanding them does not thereby reduce them for some other group. For example, extending marriage rights to homosexuals has not reduced the rights of heterosexuals in the slightest way. In reality Christians have lost no rights and are not threatened in any meaningful way. In Canada and the USA Christians are certainly not being persecuted.

Very well said. In a majority of states landlords can refuse to rent apartments to gay men, lesbians or same-sex couples. In many states LGBT individuals can be fired from their jobs simply because of their sexual orientation. Hardly "privileged."

 

[FireDragon76]

Very well said. In a majority of states landlords can refuse to rent apartments to gay men, lesbians or same-sex couples. In many states LGBT individuals can be fired from their jobs simply because of their sexual orientation. Hardly "privileged."

Indeed. There is a false perception in many states that gays are protected by law against discrimination. It's ronic we have gay marriage as the law of the land but anti-discrimination laws for gays are not proportionate to that reality.