First, I agree that it’s important for both sides to come to the realization that neither side is saturated with ne’er-do-well evil people who lurk in the corners with aspirations of demolishing the other. Gays and conservatives can cohabitate… differences in opinion are just that… opinions — the issue, however, comes, when one person’s opinion infringes upon another person’s freedom. I see a homosexual’s right to visit a spouse in the hospital as more inherent that I do a conservative’s right to live in a world free of homosexual spouses.

Mr. Richardson provides the gay rights movement with advice with regard to success, like… not calling in “gay” to work, and approaching the issues, rather than the rhetoric, or the basis of the issues. I don’t necessarily think that I’d be taking directions from the enemy. If I were a slave, I certainly wouldn’t have asked my Massa for directions up North.

And finally… Mr. Richardson constantly speaks of the gay community in third person — at no point in this essay/interview does he refer to the community as an “us” or “we.” He makes a concerted effort to extricate himself from what he must invariably view as a train wreck. How odd… that Mr. Richardson would abandon his people….