June 26, 2003
A Historic Day
By Byron LaMasters
I'm legal.
Update: I'm still looking at the decision, but I'm pleased that the ruling was on privacy as opposed to just equal protection, as ruling on privacy strikes down all sodomy laws, not just laws in states where there's a different standard for homosexual and heterosexual sodomy (like Texas).
Good line of attack that Howard Dean is using and that all Democrats should pick up on:
The Texas anti-sodomy law was nothing less than government-sanctioned intolerance and discrimination. The fact that President Bush defended the law while he was Governor shows that he is not the uniter he claims to be.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at June 26, 2003 10:35 AM
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I think the ruling is sick and scarey! I am glad I am no longer a Democrat! Wait until you see just how far this will go.
I was born and raised in this wonderful city of Jackson, Tennessee.
I love this state, I love this town, and I love the people in it.
I have always been touched by the warmth and Christian spirit of those I have grown-up with.
But I have to express dismay at some of the anger and hostility I have seen around town towards our gay citizens.
I am a Southern Baptist and a good Christian. My wife and I have helped raise foster children at a Baptist home.
It has always distressed me that so many of those kids would never find good homes, yet closed-minded bigots would deny homosexuals the right to adopt them. Why must we all be so hateful to our homosexual brothers and sisters? They are no different from you, except in who they love and want to marry.
Gay people are born who they are, as much as you are born straight. Why should we deny homosexuals the right to adopt and marry and to share the same rights that we do? I hope that the same understanding and compassion this town has shown me all my life will someday be extended to our homosexual friends and neighbors in their struggle for equality.
Sincerely,
Jim Franklin
Jackson, TN
