Opposing Beliefs Can Co-exist

It is quite shocking to me how a few figureheads in the African-American community are so absolutely against the idea of homosexuals having the right to marry. You would think the fight for equal rights and equal treatment would be a fight that they could at least understand and appreciate, not attack and tear apart as these few have done.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best.

I believe that the day will come when all God's children from bass black to treble white will be significant on the Constitution's keyboard.

-San Francisco, 1956

No, No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream!

-Washington, D.C., 1963

King's words ring true for any disenfranchised, oppressed, discriminated and hated minority. All of us deserve equal rights, equal treatment, and equal opportunity irregardless of race, creed, orientation or belief. The values of any culture, any individual are just as important as any other.

There is certain to be disagreement, but the one agreement we all should share is that we allow other people to have their beliefs as long as those beliefs are not harmful to another. The existence of one set of beliefs does not preclude or discount the existence of other alternative sets of belief. No one is above another, and no one ever should be.

And you can Quote me on that. The Quotable Queer