Remember this parable?
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
When the Duggars got Sexual Orientation removed from the nondiscrimination ordinance in their town it was celebrated, not just by them, but the religious right.
And it was not the only celebration of it kind.
Whenever the GLBT Community loses in court or is left out or removed from laws that respect equality, the religious Right dances in the street.
And now, as they face a possible loss in favor of equal rights, their hope is that the GLBT Community plays nice, and does not act as they have consistently done.
Ryan Anderson, a fellow at Heritage had this to say about the GLBT Community’s possible response if the Supreme Court decides in favor of marriage equality now that they have decided to take up the case:
“We’ll have to see how gracious or vindictive voices within the LGBT community are in their responses. Will they become a live-and-let-live movement or a stamp-out-dissent movement? If there’s respect, there’s likely to be less pushback from conservatives.”
I guess we are supposed to get married in shadows and not show any signs of joy.
Perhaps, if conservatives had been showing the GLBT Community some respect over the years, there would not have been any pushback in the quest for equality.
It would not have been unnecessary.
There is an implied admission of guilt for wrong doing if the conservatives are now saying, “Don’t treat us the way we have always treated you. That would be so wrong”.