Loving your comments on the Clueless Santorum - Can Gay People Stop Being gay? thread. You are one smart cookie. Thank you for taking the time to spread love by challenging ignorance. 5 Stars & 2 thumbs up!!

The Judge who invalidated Prop 8 nailed it when he said that bans on gay marriage were meant for heterosexuals to display their "moral disapproval" of homosexuality. He said it has nothing whatsoever to do with the "definition" or marriage or "protecting marriage," but rather was a form of gay bashing meant to treat gay people as second class. That's all it is, because there certainly is no other reason for people to oppose gay people from getting equal rights. It disgusts me that heterosexuals are so insecure about themselves that they need to bully gay people at the ballot box.

Your comments on "100,000 For Marriage Challenge" were great. Keep up the good work!

hugs from UK

Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP said:

Black people, of all people, should not oppose equality. And that is what gay marriage represents. It does not matter the rationale -- religious, cultural, pseudo-scientific. No people of goodwill should oppose marriage equality. And they should not think that civil unions are a substitute. At best, civil unions are separate but equal. And we all know separate is never equal.

THE TARGETS

Young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape. Women ages 20-24 are at greatest risk of nonfatal domestic violence, and women age 24 and under suffer from the highest rates of rape. The Justice Department estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rape during their college years, and that less than five percent of these rapes will be reported

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day. Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported

"The majority of all [abused or neglected] children ... were maltreated by their biological parents." In fact, the study says that "92% were neglected by biological parents" and "64% were abused by biological parents." "Biological parents were the most closely related perpetrators for 71% of physically abused children and for 73% of emotionally abused children."

thanks for the invite..love nyc...

I like you. You have a gob (mouth) that speaks the truth. <3 from England!