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Title: LGBT Perspective: Why Would APIs Favor Discrimination?
Post by: Natasha on October 02, 2008, 02:19:47 PM
LGBT Perspective: Why Would APIs Favor Discrimination?

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/02/lgbt-perspective-why-would-apis-favor-discrimination/ (http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/02/lgbt-perspective-why-would-apis-favor-discrimination/)
10/2/2008

At a meeting to defeat Proposition 8—the one that "eliminates the right of same sex couples to marry"—we learned that APIs are slightly more in favor of the proposition than against it. We are surprised.

APIs, with a long history of fighting against unequal rights, are now actually in favor of unequal rights? That doesn't make a lot of sense. Have we forgotten all those exclusion acts enacted to deny us rights other people take for granted? Have we forgotten what discrimination feels like?