let to start off today's program with um...
with actually a very touching story that i uh... i found the
digby
and it uh...
comes from the uh... actually
okay
hate dot com
site which is a uh... equal rights organization
it posted this letter on uh...
on face book friday morning
it is a letter
from a father
to a son
uh...
in its it's apropos today apparently uh...
well i mean it's always apropos but uh... uh...
the notion of of marriage equality is very much in the news in a political
sense
coming out of uh... c_ pac uh...
they're really does seem to be some sense that even
the republican party at least on some level is
admitting that that
they no longer
can uh...
wait some type of get some type of electoral benefit out of the homophobia
that
has been uh... one of their goto his over the the past decade
and specifically the past decade in terms of electoral power
and uh... but
and hillary clinton i guess came out today in favor of marriage equality
to the extent that that's relevant demi mixed it's better than her not guest
uh... but
really
the most important aspects of this
is
well it's arguable that you know obviously it's it's incredibly important
for
uh...
for all people to have the same rights
in marriage
but it also has a huge implications in terms of
of peoples lives i mean that's what it's all timidly always spent about but
at this really brings it home particularly uh... with with with young
people
uh... we are going to be
we hopefully our past the point
in the history of this country
to some extent i mean we're we're obviously not fully there but we're past
the point where young people
will grow up with an incredible amount of uh... of of stigma and feelings of
alienation
uh... in being alone and really
living tortured childhoods because they are not able to express
who they are in a in a very basic in real away
and uh...
this letter from a father to his son
is just incredibly touching in that respect
um...
apparently
the father
overheard a phone conversation between his son who i
intel fees in high schooler in college or what
uh...
uh... his son and planning to come out to his parents
and uh... the father writes uh... a letter
it's really
uh... so sweet it's it's almost hard to read without choking up but
uh...
overheard your phone conversation with mike last night about your plans to come
out
to me and the only thing i needed a plan is to bring home o_j_ and bread after
class
we are out like you know i've known you were gay since you were six
i'd love to you since you were born
p_s_ your mom and i think that you might make a cute couple
it's
just so sweet and
uh... indicative of the implications of this
for
literally
hundreds of thousands millions perhaps uh... of cuba millions of course is you
know
of children that they're going to be able to grow up in a world that accepts
them for who they are
uh... and don't need to hide
uh...
from themselves or from their family and so uh... it's a very encouraging time in
that respect in in
uh...
the lease in this society so
uh... one start off with a positive note today
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