I do not want to frighten the children of America regarding the goals of militant homosexuals in this country. They do demonstrate in the streets. They do have plans to create a unisexual society in this country. They do want to transform America into a modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
This differs greatly from the statement from AIDS patients, who were gay men suffering. This message is hypocritical because of the lack of love.
I do not want to frighten the children of America regarding the goals of militant homosexuals in this country. They do demonstrate in the streets. They do have plans to create a unisexual society in this country. They do want to transform America into a modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
Falwell calls out homosexuals with a hateful tone and uses the Bible to do so. Although the Bible does speak of the sins of homosexuality, Falwell uses this to his advantage with hopes of gaining something for himself. This is ironic because the typical Christian is not greedy and manipulative. This statement carries weight of false ideas of the homosexuals in America at the time.
So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government–not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
The New Deal had allowed the government to have too much control over the people. Reagan pushed for Americans to work hard and put into the government once helped, rather than continuously receiving. Reagan is saying that the government only has as much control over the people as the people let it to a certain extent. People took advantage of the programs and benefits of the New Deal. The time had come to stray away from handouts from the government.
This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue.
These short sentences carry a heavy message that is found in today's society. We are all human. We all suffer. AIDS was affecting the lives of humans that lived normal lives. These gay men are pleading with the government to see them as people, not gay men. The tone of this is completely different from Falwell's speech. In Falwell's "Homosexual Revolution", gays are the bad guys who are trying to take over. This statement by Mr. Lyon holds more truth- whether gay or straight, we are all human and we all suffer. In the 1980's, the gay community was suffering from a new disease. They wanted help. They wanted to be taken serious. They wanted to be treated.
without regard to race.
This is a great example of political correctness- relaying the statement in a positive manner yet contradicting this very statement by separating the races on the train.
But, by the statute in question, a Chinaman can ride in the same passenger coach with white citizens of the United States, while citizens of the black race in Louisiana, many of whom, perhaps, risked their lives for the preservation of the Union, who are entitled, by law, to participate in the political control of the state and nation, who are not excluded, by law or by reason of their race, from public stations of any kind, and who have all the legal rights that belong to white citizens, are yet declared to be criminals, liable to imprisonment, if they ride in a public coach occupied by citizens of the white race.
This comparison shows us the unwillingness of the white man to accept African Americans as equal individuals.
Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
The feeling of unimportance was more than enough to encourage African Americans to seek the highest level and be viewed as a person rather than an object. They made the most of their newfound freedom by chasing after a name for themselves.