Quote: Matter-eater Man said: Well Jim, I'm sure you helped raise some good kids but that really is the duty & responsibility of any parent.
It's also our responsibility to recycle, but we don't. It's also our responsibility to obey the law. But not everydoes.
I'm sorry, but I see how some other parents raise their kids, and I believe I am going many extra miles.
Quote: I think everyone can understand parenting is a demanding job & requires most of your time & resources. But
Yeah, there's always a "but" when it follows a line like that.
Quote: looking at all the progress that has been made concerning gays in the last couple of decades, how much of a role did parents raising a better generation play?
Nobody says it would be easy, nobody said it would be quick.
Quote: Way I see it, the folks who couldn't or wouldn't hide their gayness created events & organizations like gay pride. These things grew & now you have politicians & major companies attending them, competing for our attention. Essentially the people that your worried about making us look bad were the same types who made things better for us in the first place.
Pride Parades are not accurate reflections of who the gay community is on any kind of day-to-day existence. That is what I meant by my original remark of "better" that I aspire to, and I apologize for its lack of clarity. Maybe most of those in the parade do, too. I just know that I find much of the parade caricaturish. My life is not a caricature.
The Pride Parade is a once a year event. Being gay occurs the remaining 364 days of the year, too.
