America Hates Gays. Discuss...
Feb. 14th, 2008 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hantsbearOnce again, Homophobic legislators in Arizona, claiming God on their side, are trying to put anti-gay bills (SCR 1038 and HCR 2065) to the ballot. I haven't read either of these bills; the fact that they exist is abhorrent to me. And further evidence to me that, despite being ahead of the world in many things, America as a country seriously lags behind in the field of human rights.
Whether you consider this to be a part of the right-wing Christian/Mormon agenda or the Corporations not willing to shoulder the additional costs that partner benefits would add to them, it still mounts to a creation of a second class of citizen. And, due to the US's lack of labor laws, there are people afraid to come out because to do so would lose them their job.
I guess this is an over-simplification of the situation, but that's what I observe from the other side of the Atlantic.
Rant over.
Whether you consider this to be a part of the right-wing Christian/Mormon agenda or the Corporations not willing to shoulder the additional costs that partner benefits would add to them, it still mounts to a creation of a second class of citizen. And, due to the US's lack of labor laws, there are people afraid to come out because to do so would lose them their job.
I guess this is an over-simplification of the situation, but that's what I observe from the other side of the Atlantic.
Rant over.
