Lie on the phone, like they think that you're tolerant...

Something that I heard during the debate didn't really hit me right away. But the more and more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.

Very magnanimously, Governor Palin said how she's know gay people and she's tolerant of them. I see. How nice for her. How nice for us. How am I NOT supposed to be offended by that?

What if instead she had said that she knows some black people and she's very tolerant of them? Or what is she said she knew some Jews and she was very tolernat of Jews? Would blacks and Jews NOT be outraged?

How about this one, what if Joe Biden, a Catholic, said in response that he knows a few far-right, fundamentalist, ultra-conservative Evangelical Christians, some of them even women, and he's very tolernant of them? I assume Palin would have called foul. I assume she would have been offended, as would any other right leaning fundamentalist, ultra-conservative, Evangelical, Christian woman would be.

But yet I, as a gay man, am supposed to just be happy and thrilled that she 'tolerates' me. I guess it IS a step up from saying I should be thrown into a re-edcuation camp, or shot on sight, but still, it is rather condescending.

Frankly, I don't need nor do I want her tolerance. I want my equal rights as an American citizen, one who just happens to be gay, but who IS an American citizen nonetheless. I am, contrary to what Sarah Palin and her ilk may believe, HER and THEIR equal, when it comes to rights in the Constitution. And since she had the right to marry the man she loved, her 'first dude', I have the right to marry any man I love, MY 'first dude'. And I'll not let HER or anyone else like her, deny me that...and instead just 'tolerate' me.

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