The Second Time Is Always Far Scarier

My Friend Sean Chapin has asked me to share this video with my subscribers to see the original or find out more about sean chapin go to his YouTube site:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanChapin1

Some of our viewers have expressed indignation at the comparisons drawn between the huge loss of life on September 11th and the denial of civil rights enacted by the states of California and Maine. So let me be clear why Sean Chapin made this video and why we support it. First, it was never meant to say that these events are the same. What happened on September 11th was horrific beyond my ability to describe. I bawling my eyes out while watching human beings jump to their deaths rather than die within a burning building and hearing the final goodbyes delivered by cellphone messages to families who would never see their loved ones again. Nothing can approach that day, In my mind.

What this video is pointing out is that the nation sat up and took notice. They did not just move on with life as normal because something was clearly wrong. But yet today, no one seems to have that sense of urgency when a whole class of people have their rights stripped from them. Believe me...we have gotten a mountain of emails from gay people attempting to shame US becuase marriage is "not a priority" for them. We have also been accused a kind of selfishness for asking the community to stand up and support each other. We have been called "privleged white gays" and "mainstreamers". We get comments from gays that are just as vitriolic as anything a conservative could think up. It has been shocking just how much division there is within a community that NEEDS to stand together just to survive...



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[korisx]

The funny thing about all this, is sooner or later (and for one reason or another) homosexualtiy will not be an issue, and each religious sect, will have themselves to tend with. Given that in Christianity, there can only be one true church, with scything results on America's constitution, what's to keep a prodminantly Christian nation from furthering their exclusion agenda?

[depfox]

I agree with you 100%

[MaleOrderBride]

Wow! So disrespectful and self-indulgent!

You are comparing the deaths of hundreds of Americans in September 11 to YOU not being able to get a piece of paper that "proves" you are better than couples without one?

Niiiiccee.....

[depfox]

You miss the point of the video

[SeanChapin1]

@MaleOrderBride, if you don't want to get married, I can understand that, but marriage is a fundamental civil right, and whether or not you want to get married, you should have that right to get married as an equal citizen of America. I would think that every LGBT person would want to have full equal rights like everyone else.

As a full disclosure, I am the one that produced this video.  I have also met Mark Bingham, and his life has inspired me greatly to be the person I am today.

[scottneumann82]

awesome!! very motivational!!!

[SeanChapin1]

@valital, I hope that we see our government take a position through the Federal court cast against Prop 8 argued by Olsen/Boies.

[valital]

... The only people that can be affected by this video are complacent LGBT people who may now realise they risk losing whatever rights they have grown accustomed to. On the other hand, also the enemies of marriage equality may be motivated by this video to continue with their evil actions.

[valital]

Something happening twice means you see it's not an isolated incident but possibly the beginning of a series of events. But for something to happen as a consequence of this, there must be agreement that the events are negative in nature. You and I may agree on this, but a lot of people don't and the US government hasn't taken a position against these rights being taken away so I don't see why they'd now take action simply because this is possibly the beginning of a series of similar initiatives.

[korisx]

Great, I get your point, you don't want to get married, for now, you dislike marriage for whatever reason, and the reasons you have given of course are 120% valid, but let me ask you this:

Knowing the difference between you not wanting a marriage and a straight person not wanting to be married, how can you ignore the greater problem this represents?

Our decisions are being made via oppression.

Sorry but your argument given the circumstances, sounds like Stockholm syndrome.

[stoner829]

MaleOrderBride-my latest F'buddy and I have been together monogamously for over 18 years. He was nearly kicked out of my hospital room last year when I became ill. We have to pay an extra $400. a month for his health insurance..when normally (if we were married) he could be on my plan...

Sorry you have such a narrow vision about gay relationships...

[MaleOrderBride]

No, I got your point. You are throwing a tantrum because you don't have the "right" to walk down the aisle with your latest f*ckbuddy.

Please stop talking for all us "gays". I am a gay guy. I don't want to get married. I don't want "gay marriage" Marriage is a failed patriarchial, oppressive institution that ends in divorce more than 50% of the time.

I wonder what Mark Bingham would think of you?!