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Originally Posted by Dirty Videophile  We pay taxes for public education yet few of us have children.
The majority of us can't get insurance and financial benefits of partners.
Many gays stay in the "closet" for fear of ridicue from fellow workers and friends.
And the list goes on. And on.
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I agree with your points, with the exception of the education thing. Think of it more like paying off a student loan - you pay taxes for public education now, because you (not your parents, you) weren't paying for it at the time you were receiving it.
Now, as for other taxes, especially income tax, that's a different story. If I pay sales tax and income tax at the same rate as any other citizen, I should be entitled to ALL the same benefits and services, but I'm not, because I'm gay. If I work the same job at the same rate of pay as the guy sitting next to me, I should get the same benefits and protections, but I don't, because I'm gay.
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Originally Posted by erratic We're lucky that's all.
My country hasn't executed me recently. Not every homo can say that. |
Is that the best you can do? Any oppressed minority should say, "They haven't killed me yet, so I should be happy to be a second-class citizen!"??? Since the "offenders" weren't "officially" executed by the government, miscegnation laws should still be on the books? Women weren't being executed for trying to vote, so they should have just happily accepted their role as chattel, and stopped whining about it?