Even if you’re a news junkie like I am, who lives on a steady stream of cable news, that one story should give you pause to hope. As a group of people lobbying for the basic rights afforded everyone else in our country, recognition doesn’t get any better than having our pleas addressed by the highest court in our nation. Our progress In the last several years has been remarkable. Striking down the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell edict for military service, individual states endorsing marriage equality and a shout out from the President of the United States are all milestones in our very recent history. We also have two major protestant denominations, the Lutheran Church and the Episcopal Church, with openly gay persons serving as clergy and as bishops. Politicians such as Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin would once have had no hopes for careers, but have been able to serve our country on a national level without fear. To me, those last two words “without fear” are tremendously powerful. It signifies the direction our nation is headed. We may still have our critics but they are more often being dismissed as out of touch and spiteful.
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