A comment left by Chris, a co-blogger at Tealart, needs to get public attention on my blog’s front page:

An interesting platform to stand on is that how can you go and protect us in the outside world and give liberity to those who’ve never had it when we cannot even do that at home? If we can’t even protect the rights that individuals have HERE, are supposed to have but don’t, should we really be flying and bombing and building and breaking things every where else? Don’t get me wrong, the war on terrorism is important but at the same point its…lessoned somewhat by the fact that we’re being so hypocritical with it.

Defending our freedoms…but some of us don’t HAVE those freedoms and never will if Bush gets his way. So, tell me then, what are we defending? Our right to repress? Our right to exclude?

To which I have responded:

Chris, nothing tears at me more than the civil rights issues surrounding gays. Here’s what a search for the word “gay” on my blog brings up. Read from the bottom up, if you wish.

As for your last question, I am defending our right as a people to be able to remain free to discuss the very issues that tear at us.

Not the right to repress, my friend, nor the right to exclude, but the freedom to set things right over time. We won’t have it under a leadership that would sell us to the dogs.

In other news, Boi From Troy has been hard at work with a gay marriage roundup coming from different perspectives. It’s a day’s worth of reading.