Miss America’s Platform for LGBT Rights
12 08 2010
Guess what – you can be a beauty Queen and you can be Pro-LGBT rights. Yes You Can! This is the first Miss America contestant, ever, to use LGBT rights as her contestant platform.
Her platform is “Straight for Equality: Let’s Talk”
Bringing equality to such a high profile platform is a courageous indictment of the hostility many straight people feel toward gay people, reminiscent of the Earlier Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s. Twenty -50 years from now, if you are not carrying a banner “Straights for LGBT Right” you and your children will be ashamed. If my Parents would not have carried their Pro Black Civil Rights Banner – today I would be ashamed.
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