Hatred in America

Talking Points Memo posted a video of Bill Moyers explaining Hillary’s LBJ quote from a while back. It’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it, although it seems the flap has mostly died down now. At the 1:33 mark there’s a photo from the fifties of some teenagers holding a sign that I’m not going to quote here. It got me thinking about hatred in America in general and the incredible, unconscionable tolerance we continue to have for anti-gay sentiment.

Here’s a video about how Huckabee recently compared homosexuality to bestiality.

I really believe that there will be a time, hopefully soon, when we look back on the debates about same-sex marriage and the way gays are marginalized in popular discourse, and have the same repulsed disbelief that we do now looking at footage of the civil rights activity in the fifties and sixties.

20 January 2008 | general | Comments