Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced recently that the
National Park Service will begin installing markers at places of importance to
the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to mark their
contributions to state and U.S. history. I am curious to see what these historical
markers will look like. What icons will be used? We’ve never done this for
heterosexuals. (I’m pretty sure the Interior Department doesn’t have my bedroom
on its list of historic sites. And, I must say, I’m not particularly offended).
Are
they going to use those brown metal roadside signs to direct us to these sites?
“Historical Marker 1.2 mi. on left.” Perhaps we’ll get there and see an angled
marble or granite slab depicting a blanket on the ground, a boombox and a
picnic basket and stating, “At this site on May 26, 1979, Pat and Pat courageously
advanced the struggle by making out to
light jazz music in full view of anyone who cared to look.”
Jewell
went on to state that the nation is ‘on a journey’ to expand civil rights to underrepresented groups. Like, say,
conservatives?
Remember: this nations original journey, its founding
journey, was to delineate and protect individual rights. It seems the more the
government strives to enhance the rights of certain groups, the more it
distances itself from protecting the rights of the individual.
And
that is bad for all of us.
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