In the middle of a summer night the New York State Legislature passed a bill that gives same sex couples the right to marry. It did not teach me that the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered (LGBT) community are people, I knew that. It did not teach me that marriage is a social contract, not a moral one, I knew that. What the whole situation taught me is that if a community is willing to organize themselves around a set of principles, that community can force outsiders to accept their beliefs. It is such a simple and ancient process, but the LGBT community had to teach us again. The question is whether our respective communities will use this lesson to improve ourselves.
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