Posted on 06/16/2019 6:30:37 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Other countries are taking steps to atone for their shameful past treatment of L.G.B.T. people. The United States should too.
The New York Police Department apologized last week to the gay community for the 1969 raid of the Stonewall Inn, the fallout of which is widely credited with spurring the contemporary gay rights movement at home and abroad. Timed to coincide with Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, the statement by Commissioner James P. O’Neill said in part: “The actions taken by the N.Y.P.D. were wrong — plain and simple” and “the actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive, and for that, I apologize.” The apology is the culmination of a decades-old struggle by gay activists for recognition of wrongdoing on the part of the police — one that few activists thought could ever become a reality.
With the surprise apology, the United States has taken its most significant leap yet into “gay reparation,” or policies intended to address the legacy of state-sanctioned repression of homosexuals. Although relatively new to the United States, gay reparation has been debated and legislated around the world for close to two decades and is a logical progression in the maturation of the gay rights movement. Having largely secured rights once thought to be virtually unattainable — especially same-sex marriage — gay activists, especially in Western democracies, are turning their attention to addressing the historical legacies of homosexual repression.
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I predict violence from those who object to this crazy plan if it becomes reality.
Another Un-American Democrat Idea to help Bust the Budget.
We needed more state sanctioned repression of homosexuals.
Homosexual acts should have never been lawful. Had they remained unlawful we would not have the degenerates running amuck in society as we do now and that alone would make the world a nicer place.
Likewise, if the Left had not become so easily manipulated through their emotions by means of a made up politically self-serving absurd word (”homophobia”) the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood wouldn’t have been able to conjure up another such term, “Islamophoba”, by which they likewise easily manipulate the Left.
And adding that to the former, removing a good chunk of idiocy from the culture at large, would make our corner of the world a nicer place still.
Reparations-H
I will self censor and not tell them where they can stuff those reparations.
Gays have NEVER been truly discriminated against in our country. This is a bogus argument.
Most Americans don’t give a crap what two consenting adults do in their spare time, as long as it’s not continuously thrown in their faces and they’re not called bigots. There’s never been “hate”, either. The left has successfully conflated hate with disagreement.
Lastly, “gay rights” have never really been an issue anywhere. It’s a made-up construct. Most gay couples I know are two professionals with great jobs and are better off financially than most heterosexual couples I know. Marriage was their last bastion and that’s gone now, too.
The Stonewall police raid is a singular event that gay “rights” troublemakers point to as an example of their oppression. They really can’t dig up any others. Every group in America can point to singular, disturbing events — the Waco Twin Peaks shooting could be argued in a similar way by some.
But again with the left, it’s always about pitting people artificially against each other. It’s their source of power and prominence.
Here’s an apology.
“Lord, I apologize for that one there, and please be with all the starving pygmies down there is New Guinea! Amen.”
- Larry the Cable Guy
How many are still alive since 1969?
Reparations should be paid by the people who introduced AIDS to this country.
This posting by FR’s says it best and when printed up makes a good bumper sticker or poster;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts/#40
Ummm No! And furthermore, getting really sick and tired of all this ‘reparations’ BS, as well!
The case for white reparations. We ‘ve been paying the bills for many years. It’s time for our reimbursement from this unconstitutional overspending govt.
That argument leads to every person kicked out of the military for sexual misconduct suing the government for money as a victim.
This argument means every cross-dresser and person who identifies as something else suing as a victim.
It also means you can’t ban drag queen story time or else be sued for a violation of their civil rights.
How about “reparations” for all of us who have suffered as a result of left-wing democrat policies?
Good one!
Everybody wanting to get something for nothing.
We should pay reparations to men who were teased because they were sissies and women who were not.
I think we have all known gays and lesbians since childhood, but I, for one, never recall even one of them being discriminated against in the workplace.
BTW, if we start giving reparations to those who are permanently offended and have their widdle feelings hurt, reparations will never end.
To gays and lesbians: life sucks, its hurts. Get tough and frikken get over it.
The rest of us do.
A homosexual, far-Left Mexican teacher who likely majored in victim studies and is consumed with reparations envy writing an opinion piece the NYT determines is worthy of publication. Whooda thunk?!
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