Here in Dallas, within the last three weeks we have held the 26th annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade in Dallas, the Dallas Southern Pride weekend and the Tarrant County Gay Pride Parade. Within the last six months, we have seen the Equality March Texas commemorate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, and we have seen numerous rallies and protests against the Rainbow Lounge Raid in Fort Worth and in support of gay rights.
And now, thousands are expected in Washington, D.C., this weekend for the National Equality March, the same weekend that the president of the United States will speak at the Human Rights Campaign dinner there.
But why do we still march? I think this video answers that question very well.
Why we still march
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I was interested in this right up until the implication that the pope was somehow connected to the Nazis. When he was 14, he was conscripted in the Hitler Youth, not because he volunteered but because membership was required for all 14-year-old German boys. I’m not suggesting that he hasn’t hurt us by his hard-line teaching about homosexuality, but he has done a fairly good job of distancing himself from his Nazi past. In fact, when he was elected pope, the Anti-Defamation League noted Benedict’s “great sensitivity to Jewish history and to the Holocaust.”
I get the connection. Religion has done more harm than Hitler and they behave the same. Dogma is dogma.