Comments on: Hate Becomes Law

By: Daphney

Daphney — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:39:17 +0000

I find your article so very interesting. Now that you mention it, it’s ridiculous that “straight” couples can get married as much as they can, but “gay” people don’t even get one try. I live in Canada and I’m beginning to worry, because I always thought that California was one of the most liberal states in the States. It makes me wonder, when I’ll be eighteen, will the bigotry only grow? I’d be happy, like you, to have a choice and be treated like any other human being. But it’s not even about me, what about my children?
I don’t want them to live in a world where they’re ostracized because of their lifestyle.

Every time I try to start a discussion in class on this subject, I’m quickly overshadowed by more “important” crisis. They say I’m too young to worry, but if not now, when should I start?

Sure we’ve made some progress. But we still have a long way to go…

When I visited your blog, I wasn’t expecting this, I really enjoyed it though.
By the way, I totally love Do It In The Streets. I’ve been listening to it non-stop for a week.

Awesomely Yours,
Soda.

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:30:15 +0000

Amen!!! I went from total elation when it was announced that Obama won to a sick feeling due to Prop 8. My brother has been with my “brother-in-law” for 28 years, and they can’t receive each others social security benefits or carry each other on health insurance (they are in NY state, so they can…but with penalties…they have to pay taxes on the benefit). More than half of those good ol’ church going heterosexuals that voted “yes” are on their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th marriages. How in God’s name can this happen in America, that a majority can be given the right to decide the fate of a minority? We still have a long road to equality.

By: lovebunny

lovebunny — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:59:37 +0000

juan, you have a worldwide family. i suggest you listen to brad’s “get into the family” every morning when you get up, and maybe that will make it a little bit easier to wake up every day.

By: Juan Camacho

Juan Camacho — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:55:09 +0000

I cried when i read this, because this is exactly what i feel. I am in a family that won’t even look at me and now have abandoned me to in a time when i feel all alone. I felt that with Obama’s win, the country would prosper in unity and that for once everyone would be excepted. Now i dont’ know, and i don’t know what to wait for. Waking up in the mornings has just gotten a little more difficult.

By: iona

iona — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:06:36 +0000

Brad – Change comes slow but it comes — I remember a time in this country where if you went to a gay movie – you could be arrested – I grew up in SE DC – I remember right before MLK’s March on Washington – I was a kid and I was warned not to go out that day because there would be riots, etc. the songs We Shall Overcome and Blowing in the Wind played on both white radio and black radio — and I watched the March on TV and everyone was so happy and smiling and there was no trouble — That was 40 years ago and now Barack Obama is president. When I was a kid, there was no mention of being gay — Ellen Degeneres came out on TV — Will and Grace was a popular show. Some will never understand, but you can not let them get to you. We just have to work harder. Do not give up hope but do not give up trying ===

By: noname

noname — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:17:40 +0000

vote for brad !

By: Don’t Get it Twisted at BradWalsh.com

Don’t Get it Twisted at BradWalsh.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:24:39 +0000

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By: nicole

nicole — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:29:22 +0000

i hope when you’re talking about cousins – you’re not referring to me.

i support same-sex marriage and really hope you know that.

By: Yanna Wilson

Yanna Wilson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:07:01 +0000

Wow. You write with such passion. Believe that more change will come and there will be equality for EVERYONE.

By: misscorrine

misscorrine — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:12:12 +0000

you’re making assumptions about your relatives – you don’t really know how they would vote… i think you would be surprised.

this ban on gay marriage is simply unconstitutional. it will be overturned. the question is how long till that happens?

let’s not hate on the ignorant masses (referring to your commenters, not you brad). hateful judgment is just as ignorant for us to practice as it is them.

discrimination for any reason is not right, it never was right, and it will never be right. every year, more and more people learn this. your time is gonna come.

obama inspires hope in me. i am, for once, actually hopeful for our future. you, me, my family, the u.s. and the rest of the world. our futures. it’s too bad your hopes were dashed by this ignorant vote on prop 8 (and the others). i hope you get your hope back.

meanwhile, i love you.