Again, it is easier to be sanguine from a distance. I have talked with those on the religious right, have read their materials, and have watched ballot measures go on to victory taking away the kind of fundamental rights I listed.
I do not always want to depend on a court for the defense of my rights. Most courts are not sympathetic and it takes half a lifetime to get to a final decision.
Those rights we now enjoy in SOME states have been hard fought. I have been at it since 1970, and at no time did it appear reasonable to me to sit back and wait for litigation to honor my human rights.
I do not plan to do so now. As one who can remember vividly being stopped by the sheriff for walking a main street in West Hollywood holding my boy friend's hand as recently as 1976, I take nothing for granted.
