The Gay Deceiver: So. Where are we going to go from here?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

So. Where are we going to go from here?

An American President has said it; therefore, it must be so.

Barak Obama, yesterday in his second inaugural address to the nation (and to the World I suppose) is now being widely quoted for his remarks from the front steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Calling for equality for gay and lesbian Americans, President Obama spoke of "Our journey (not being) complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."

Referencing the Stonewall riots with other civil rights battles, and tying it into Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy, Barak Obama added "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."

A side-bar to the aforementioned, never before has the word "gay" ever been uttered by a President in their inaugural address.

So, I say again "Where are we going to go from here?"

Likely some 2-billions, or more souls world-wide will have seen (and/or heard) Mr. Obama's speech and like myself are now wondering just what the global ramifications of such a startling revelation are going to be.

Are the American people as a whole going to "put up, and shut up" and finally get on with the job of creating a society where "Equal means simply that ... equal", where everyone, regardless of their race, religion, politics, financial where-with-all, language, age, sex or sexual orientation and marital status will truly be seen to be, AND TREATED equally by all.

Should they do so, and I sincerely hope that they do, then it will be time for the rest of humanity to get with the self-same programme before we collectively annihilate one another.

Surely this is a concept whose time has finally come.

Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada

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