I note that this is by far the most common response to this question. I suppose it's not surprising given that the average LJ user is both young and liberal.
I expected it to be a popular answer... but just counting English-speaking users who were giving a serious answer, it was miles ahead of anything else as an issue -- racism, sexism, war, food, water, human rights, you name it. I really doubt that it was, as you put it, "a bit more personal" for everyone who chose that response. I think it's the liberal slant I mentioned that does that: liberal Americans are likely to pick sexuality-based discrimination as something that is self-evidently wrong
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You're lucky you don't have to live with the "powerful right-wing religious lunatic bigot lobby," or the populace in general who believe as they do.
Almost every day I have to fight back the urge to punch someone in the mouth.
My partner and I try to live quiet, unassuming lives out of the spotlight so as not to draw attention to ourselves. We're not exactly living in friendly territory. There is a group of thugs who sometimes wait outside the local gay bar (the only one for 60 miles) to rough up the customers as they leave. Last month an openly gay couple got a brick thrown through their living room window.
The wolf knows martial arts. I keep a tire iron beneath the driver's seat in my car.
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I said "some of us".
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You're lucky you don't have to live with the "powerful right-wing religious lunatic bigot lobby," or the populace in general who believe as they do.
Almost every day I have to fight back the urge to punch someone in the mouth.
My partner and I try to live quiet, unassuming lives out of the spotlight so as not to draw attention to ourselves. We're not exactly living in friendly territory. There is a group of thugs who sometimes wait outside the local gay bar (the only one for 60 miles) to rough up the customers as they leave. Last month an openly gay couple got a brick thrown through their living room window.
The wolf knows martial arts. I keep a tire iron beneath the driver's seat in my car.
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