Since I criticize the statist, Democratic-friendly agenda of the gay groups on a regular basis on this blog, it behooves me to credit them when they get something right.
You see, a private organization, AAA South (the affiliate of the American Automobile Association serving Florida, Georgia, Middle & West Tennessee and Puerto Rico), recognized “couples in same-sex relationships for an array of benefits and services.” (Apparently, this only applied to same-sex couples whose marriages have been recognized by a state.) In conversations with the group, Equality Florida had persuaded its management to offer such benefits.
They didn’t go to the government and demand that the state mandate such coverage. Instead, they lobbied the organization on their own. Exactly the right way to do things.
Well, once AAA South decided to do the right thing for gay and lesbian members, anti-gay groups raised a stink. So, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) sent out an “Action Alert” to those (including yours truly) on its mailing list:
Please let AAA South you appreciate their fair and principled policy. Send a thank you note now; and while you are at it, personalize your letter and ask AAA South to consider extending this service to all registered domestic partners.
This is exactly the way to handle this, one private organization lobbying another, without getting the state involved.
Kudos to Kate Kendell and the folks at NCLR (and those at Equality Florida) for promoting social change through private institutions.
And when the organization that needs to change, that is discriminating *is* the state, who should we lobby then?
Oh right. We should stay home and be silent. I forgot.
Forgot? How in the hell can you remember something that never happened?
Further, it’s your beloved tyrant Chairman Obama and his SEIU thugs who want people to stay home and be silent.
Dumbass.
When did I say that we should be silent, torrent? Want to provide a reference?
For all the time you spend on this blog, you remain clueless as to my actual ideas. Don’t you even read my posts on DADT where I ask for an immediate repeal?
Since you link a post where I praise, do you even get why I praise Mary Cheney? Or did you note the posts where I noted her support for the measure to defeat Prop 8?
So, please apologize for misrepresenting my arguments once again and misunderstanding my praise of Mary Cheney.
PS–here I praise a gay organization for doing the right thing and all you can do is attack and misrepresent. I take the time to praise a group that I usually criticize.
Guess this “need” to attack a gay conservative may help explain why you frequent this blog.
Second try at commenting.
Equality Florida may have used the right means but for a very wrong end. Why does society need to legitimize gay relationships? Why is that social change necessary? And why aren’t you advocating the same change for the polygamists, the incest crowd, and the bestiality people? What’s with you gays and your neurotic need for approval for your sex lives? You need to take a cue from the polygamists. Live you lives the way you feel you should and ask only that society leave you alone. Please stop trying to make me like homosexuality.
#5
Please stop trying to make me hate fellow human beings just because they’re different.
Lobogris, you’re an idiot. Where did I say I hated gays? Why do I HAVE to hate gays just because I don’t think homosexuality is morally or socially equal to heterosexuality? Am I guilty of hate because I believe that adultery is morally and socially inferior to fidelity? Am I guilty of hate because I believe that pedophilia is not only morally and socially inferior to consensual adult relationships but also inately criminal? Why am I guilty of hate because I won’t shout “Gay is good!” from the proverbial rooftops? The very fact that you resort to the hate accusation just shows how bereft of rational argument you and your side really are.
#7
Oooooooookay. I’m convinced. You’re not a hater.
P.S. I think the part about pedophilia when talking about gays was a nice touch.
Have a nice day.
Re: #8 In other words, Seane, his answer is yes, you are guilty of hate.
I know ThatGayConservative, but thanks for the heads up.
#5,#7,#10
P.P.S. I’m not gay. Bet you didn’t know THAT.
There’s a term. It’s called talking at someone. Instead of talking to/with them.
If you want to talk/discuss/argue with someone who doesn’t believe as you do, by all means, let’s talk/discuss/argue. I doubt anyone will try to “convert” you.
Your choice.
Wasn’t sure if you caught it Seena,
See, what we have here (no it’s not ‘a failure to communicate) is a freedom to associate. AAA is a private company, and if they see a business or profit motive in extending benefits, more power to ’em.
If fact, because of that freedom, you can get your friends together and associate all you want to get them to change that policy. if they see they’ll lose money, then they’ll change it. That’s what’s called ‘the marketplace of ideas’.
I was unaware of the acceptance brigade trying a reverse Ludovico technique on you where they strapped you to a chair and made you watch Queer as Folk, Jeffrey, Will and Grace and Torchwood over and over until you broke.
Lobogris, I never said you were gay. I said you were an idiot. And as for converting me, that’s what the gay rights movement has been about from day one. Gay activists have worked frantically, using every political and social means at their disposal, to “convert” people to a favorable opinion of homosexuality. I mean, what else have they doing for the last 40 years? Fighting for the right of gays to vote, attend any school of their choice, or sit at the local lunch counter? You know, typical civil rights stuff. NO! They’ve been fighting for TOTAL approval of their sex lives. And I think you know that L, regardless of how dumb you try to act.
And Livewire, AAA South didn’t extend benefits to same-sex couples on its own. Rather, it did so in response to lobbying from a gay pressure group, which just confirms the point I made to Lobogris. Gay rights is about making people like homosexuality. Yes, the acceptance brigades are on the move!
I have nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
I am defeated by the “logic” that has been put forth so eloquently by this…person. How can I argue rationally when it’s ALL just about gays having sex. I am now going to crawl back under the rock I came from. Because that’s where I deserve to live. Never to see the light. Because…I’m a thinner.
#13
You shouldn’t hang out on this blog. You might get “converted” through subliminal messages.
Not only that Lobogris, but she can’t read. AAA was presented with a profit opportunity brought to their attention, they moved.
“…it’s ALL just about gays having sex…” Yep, that’s right.
And The Livewire, you may call it a “profit opportunity”, but it was suggested to AAA South by a gay pressure group that, like all gay pressure groups, desperately wants legitimization of gay relationships. Otherwise, why bother lobbying AAA South, or any organization or business, to extend what amounts to marital benefits to gay couples?