Last night the President of the United States gave a speech about LGBT issues. It was a political event so we will not share the whole speech but we do want to call out the part that was just so...so... well PFLAGy. ....And despite the great work of some incredibly talented and courageous lawyers, it is important to understand it’s not just the laws that are changing -- it’s hearts and minds. The conventional wisdom says that all this change is due to young people growing up with different attitudes than their parents and their grandparents had. And anybody who has kids knows that there is some truth to that. The basic attitude is, I’m sorry, what is it that you’re talking about here? What’s the big deal? But what’s been remarkable is the way Americans of all age groups are increasingly embracing marriage equality. They understand love is love. And for many people whose minds have changed, it was love that did it -- love for the child or the grandchild, or the friend or the coworker who sat down one day and held their hands and took a deep breath and said, I’m gay. Almost everybody in this room was that child or grandchild or friend or coworker at some point. And you may not have known it at the time -- it may have seemed like an individual act -- but in those moments when you summoned that courage and reached out with that hopeful love, you were doing it for everybody...
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:52:08 +0000