It doesn't happen very often when you can click from one LGBT blog to another and see coverage or commentary about a like-minded subject.Thursday and Friday was one of those times when it happened like a rare rainbow. Everyone was of course covering same-sex marriage in Vermont and Iowa , pasting, clipping and linking, adding video, writing their own pieces and giving opinion.
What was even more important, some showed the opposing side, no matter how we may feel about them. Whether we call them irrational religious zealots or what most really are, average Americans who for one reason or another have a problem with the idea and use of the word marriage when it comes to gay and lesbian couples.
Change is never easy and down right impossible for some people.
But do we as a community need to constantly bang the drum calling them stupid, ignorant and other adjectives. Doesn't that then bring ourselves down to the level of what we detest, the gay bashers ?
When do we cross the line and become straight bashers ?
Some of the high and mighty bloggers who, like actors and news anchors, let their readership numbers, blog awards and occasional spotlight go to their heads and find it sacrilegious to even think about the opposition as anything less than "anti-us".
But then that shows the difference between a blogger and a journalist.
Journalists don't always get to choose sides and must swallow hard when reporting on subjects which go against what they believe in.
That aside, it was an interesting 24 hours to be an LGBT blogger.
Special thanks to WPTZ-TV, WCCI-TV, Vermont and Iowa NPR for providing Video/Audio/News feeds so we could provide coverage of these two important events regarding same-sex marriage. - the Publisher
