Gallogach wrote:Northern Dominus wrote:Because pious people who champion the subjugation of and stripping rights away from LGBT people cloak themselves in religion to hide the fact that they're just bigots, plain and simple.
We'd have more respect for them if they came out of the closet and admitted that they are in fact monumental real-life trolls. Not a lot, possibly a micrometer, but more than hiding behind some sort of proverbial shield with a cross emblazoned on it.
I am still waiting for you to demonstrate what rights have been stripped away from the LGBT community within North Carolina as per my last post. Which I'm very curious as to why you are trying to 'champion' it so much from the military side. I am only asking this because you won't disclose what part of the military you served in and seem to claim that they are everywhere in the military. Which I can tell you from experience they aren't. The few that I have met congregate together though in cliques to discuss how they are singled out when in reality they ostracize themselves from the rest of the unit. I ask because I am making the stretch that you were one of the in the military, which is why you say 'We'd have more respect...'
Here is a list of the rights and responsibilities of marriage that the Government Accountability Office has identified. These are the rights and responsibilities that under the state constitution and the law in North Carolina aren't afforded to certain US citizens IE LGBT citizens:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04353r.pdf
The irony here is this was all compiled for DOMA.
And your experience is different than mine apparently, although I fail to see where I inferred that I met masses upon masses of LGBT service men and women. I've known a few, about the sample size given the minority population in any setting. An integral part of the crew I was assigned to was gay. Everyone on that crew knew and nobody cared. I also trained with different personnel form different branches as well as went to military-friendly bars when I was actively serving, so that's primarily how I met the other LGBT men and women who were also in uniform at the time.
As far as sequestering themselves away, I can't really comment on that. The only one I can really comment on is the aforementioned crew member and he was just one of us, period.