Animal Rights
Because the Internet had been down several days (where I am), I was planning on blogging Sunday afternoon. But the Internet went down here again, so I turned on the TV. The Gay Rights movement was on. I watched more than an hour before I fell asleep.
I am more interested in the issue of ANIMAL rights, but I listened to the speeches. I guess gay rights have a lot of things in common with animal rights.
The gays are able to learn from the African American rights movement, because some people are both GLBT and black. So once a gay/lesbian black person won their rights, they still had to move on to fighting for their rights because they can still be fired from their jobs (in many states in the US) simply because they are gay.
That must be a hard row to hoe. Spend 40 years fighting for basic rights as a black person, and then get fired for being gay.
They had a big crowd in Washington DC. Think that there were any Animal Rights people there in the crowd, learning the ropes? Any hunters there just to learn the lobbying ropes, pick up new tricks? Rights issues are rights issues, no matter who the issue is about.
I guess that crowd had quite a number of people who were both gay and hunters, and other people who were both gay and Animal Rights supporters.
The gays are a huge crowd - a sizable percentage of the American public, they will win.
Politically, I don't believe that it was a very smart move on the part of the church that openly opposed them in California last year. (It was mentioned in one of the speeches). Like people still remember when a church had to be taken to court to get them to let black (male) adults have the same position that white (male) teenagers had in that church. That's been over 35 years now.
No group wants to go down in history as the last ones to get off the old bandwagon, and into the new bus.
Free tip here (if anyone there is reading this): You do NOT want to go down in history TWICE as the last ones to get with it. At some point in time, you are going to have to say "Okay, I get it", (just like before). It might as well be sooner than later.
I'm not trying to be mean, just helpful. Despite what happened in California, in the long run, the gays are going to win, surely you can see that?
Smart people know when the tide is going to change. And it is called a "tide" because it changes as it pleases, it persist, and it tends to eventually win over those who oppose it.
Change comes and goes in cycles, like the tide. We have periods of right wing, left wing, right wing, left wing. Could a bird fly if it didn't?
Progress and rest, progress and rest - that's the way things grow and change, it is the rhythm of life. Day and night, up and down, birth and death.
People who insist on holding back change, are at first welcomed by those needing a rest from progress. But then people start to wake back up and work to progress our society. To try to hold back people, who have rested enough, is unwise, and tends to get you called bad names.
Eventually, people will find that working to advance our society is tiring, they will want a break from it, older voices will prevail, and progress will rest, for a while.
But you can bank on it, that too will change, again, and again, and at a faster pace than before, as technology lets the night owls and the early birds work on progress, while others slumber peacefully as they have been.
Nature moves us along, right, left, right, left.
We have had many years of political right wing, don't try to stop the left wing from having its turn - that's how things are meant to change.
Just as your right leg must rest while your left leg is stepping forward, (if you tried to work both legs at the same time, you would fall on your bottom), the right wing of our society must rest and let the left wing have it's turn.
It is NOT that one side is bad and one is good, they are different sides of the same society, and they need to each have their turn.
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