In fairness though, pretty much every regime tries to kill us off every once in a while, so it's not like rooting for anything else actually changes anything on that front.
Try rooting for a system where individuals have inalienable rights that cannot be infringed upon, so that no regime can ever amass the power to try to kill off their own.
Sounds great in theory but assuming you're talking about the US this was the nation that that made "sodomy" a capital offence, had vice squads entrap gay men, raided gay bars until people had to riot and fight a war against police, imprisoned us without trial, put us in mental institutions, cut off our genitals and up until last year thought that electric shock therapy was an acceptable way to "cure" queer kids. Gotta love those "inalienable rights".
My point being that ..
Every country and every religion tries to kill off the queers. Whether it's Nazi Germany calling it decadent anti social behaviour, the US calling it unAmerican Communist influence, the Soviet saying it's Western decadence, Jews and evangelists calling us demons or Islamists calling us American decadent pigs it's all the same. Hell, even the Dalai Lama calls us unnatural.
Those lovely rights you enjoy are limited to who is tolerated by the majority.
Only if you surrender them. The rights I love are *for* the minority. The majority doesn't need freedom of speech. The right to keep and bear arms. To be secure in their person and effects. Any rights pertaining to trial or imprisonment. Certainly not a reminder that powers not explicitly given to the feds belong to the people.
And even if you're right, better to die free. Nobody is going to have anything better if you're so eager to stay on your knees and ask your oh so kindly masters for more.
Maybe you should take some cues from that gun rights lobby you love so much.
Challenge all encroachment. Obey no king or lord. And be ready to shoot the next sorry son of a bitch who thinks they can force compliance.
Live free or die.
And for the record, I'm not talking about America. I'm talking about the enlightened, free union of states governed by consent that America is meant to be. Even now, when the White House colludes to carve out the vocal cords of political dissent, when the White House swears to disarm us, and when the masses call for laws that elevate certain races over others, and spit on the very foundations that allow them the right to disgrace this great nation even as they reap greater and greater benefits from her.
The America we never had, never will have, but must always strive for.
No matter how many petty tyrants claim to know better, or little lords try to sell us security at the cost of liberty. Or liars that talk down at us while financing and reaping the latest tragedy.
This We'll Defend.
Every country and every religion tries to kill off the queers. Whether it's Nazi Germany calling it decadent anti social behaviour, the US calling it unAmerican Communist influence, the Soviet saying it's Western decadence, Jews and evangelists calling us demons or Islamists calling us American decadent pigs it's all the same. Hell, even the Dalai Lama calls us unnatural.
Those lovely rights you enjoy are limited to who is tolerated by the majority.
And even if you're right, better to die free. Nobody is going to have anything better if you're so eager to stay on your knees and ask your oh so kindly masters for more.
Maybe you should take some cues from that gun rights lobby you love so much.
Challenge all encroachment. Obey no king or lord. And be ready to shoot the next sorry son of a bitch who thinks they can force compliance.
Live free or die.
The America we never had, never will have, but must always strive for.
No matter how many petty tyrants claim to know better, or little lords try to sell us security at the cost of liberty. Or liars that talk down at us while financing and reaping the latest tragedy.
This We'll Defend.