Question by Amelia N: Is it okay that the Human Rights Campaign is in fact a gay rights movement?
I just saw someone slam the Human Rights Campaign for being a gay rights campaign instead of a pro-life campaign. Someone (not me, I swear) called this person out on that, bringing up the fact that for all anyone knows any fetus could grow up to be gay themselves, and that if they were going to use the “EVERYONE has a right to live” argument, that also means gays. That comment is now deleted, go figure.

So is it really that big a deal that the Human Rights Campaign exists and is what is? And is it okay that people support it knowing what it is?
I’m not gay, but my best friend since middle school (a male) is. Obviously he wasn’t aborted and neither of us think his mother should have aborted him if she had somehow known then that her second baby would grow up to be gay. I also don’t think Matthew Shepard, Brandon Teena, Gary Matson, Winfield Mowder, Roxanne Ellis, Michelle Abdil, Sean W. Kennedy, among others deserved to die. As far as my own stance on abortion, normally I guess you could say I’m against it but if the pregnancy is a threat to the mother, what about HER right to live?

Best answer:

Answer by fall flower
Honestly, I don’t get why some are so keen on the rights of fetuses, yet not supportive of the rights of those they perceive as different from themselves/their ideal person in any way. Meanwhile, you’re absolutely right about how the fetuses in question could very well end up “different” (not just gay, but also liberal, not Christian/the same branch of Christianity, that kind of stuff). Okay, so they had the right to be born, yet they can only have limited rights later in life?

And don’t anybody tell me that the name “Human Rights Campaign” is misleading! Gays and lesbians are human, too.

On another note, I think I’ve trace the root of your anger: that same “mommy blogger” who made sure her daughter understood girls can only marry boys, among other things that prove how closed-minded the mother really is. Much as I hate to stroke her ego with more hits, here’s the link for proof: http://www.graspingforobjectivity.com/2009/04/case-of-mysterious-bumper-stickers.html

For the lovely mother-daughter conversation: http://graspingforobjectivitybsides.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-yittle-fings-part-eleven.html

Even if she does ultimately delete your answers, don’t be afraid to comment on either of these.

All that said, I don’t know where you live, but either way hopefully your friend can marry a boy someday (if he wants to get married at all, of course).

What do you think? Answer below!