{"id":1573,"date":"2003-08-06T05:46:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T19:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/its-a-rainbow-banner-year\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:46:18","slug":"its-a-rainbow-banner-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/its-a-rainbow-banner-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It's a (rainbow) banner year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just thinking that it’s only early August, we’ve still got five months left in the year, but 2003 has already been a landmark year in terms of gay rights. Just in the past seven months, we’ve seen the Supreme Court strike down discriminatory anti-sodomy laws, Canada has legalized same-sex marriages, and now the first openly gay Bishop has been elected to the Episcopal church. Things like this are really neat to see.<\/p>\n

I’m sure we’ve still got a long way to go before someone’s sexuality matters as little in how we view them as does the color of their skin<\/del> their political views<\/del> their religion<\/del> — oh, well, so we’ve got a long way to go no matter what. Still, these events give me hope.<\/p>\n

Update: Apparently, Kirsten was thinking along similar lines<\/a> this morning. I loved this bit about possible consequences of Bush’s push to condemn gay marriages:<\/p>\n

\n …I’m glad Bush is wasting time, money, and resources on this. In the midst of gay culture being accepted – hell, being popular! – this administration is sending up a sign of intolerance I don’t think most people will necessarily agree with completely. I think it will force people to think about how they feel about the issue. And I think ultimately it will draw the amount of attention needed to the topic to get it finally pushed through – in favor of gay marriage. Whether that comes through the congress’ refusal to pass a national law, or through enough attention being devoted to the subject that the Supreme Court feels it appropriate to finally examine the issue and make a decision – I hope this ultimately addresses the egregious wrongs our country has done against the civil rights of gay people.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure we’ve still got a long way to go before someone’s sexuality matters as little in how we view them as does…oh, well, so we’ve got a long way to go no matter what. Still, these events give me hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,103],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}