I wish people even remotely cared as much about Congressional elections as they do Presidential elections. You know, since Congress is actually the group that makes the laws that affect us the most….

I always have a difficult time deciding if it’s easier to “Unfollow” or just “Unfriend”…

Dear non-gay friends: go out and hug a local non-straight human today. (Ask first though!) We could all really use one.

Easy “gun control” solution, and the US government would make money off of it (that’s they only way they’ll get involved), and no one would be coming for your guns (bear all the arms you want, it’ll just cost to use them): add a use tax to every shell casing sold, filled or empty. A LARGE tax. Say, $100 a casing.

People would think twice before wasting money en mass. And they’d start recycling all that brass they leave all over the damn place. Sure, a black market would develop, but that’s going to happen with whatever happens anyway.

So don’t tell me I have to view #PulseOrlando as an attack on America instead of an attack on gay people.

Because we’re not Americans when you call us faggots, we’re not Americans when you legally fire us, we’re not Americans when you kill trans people, we’re not Americans when you deny us adoption rights, we’re not Americans when you say nasty shit to us when we’re holding hands on the street (and yeah, we do hear you) we’re not Americans when you deny us marriage licenses or a simple wedding cake with our names on it.

In all of those circumstances we’re just gay people, and being an American doesn’t matter.

So, out of respect for everyone who fought and died before me, I’m going to take a few days to mourn as a gay man before I mourn as an American.

And then after that, you can resume telling me I have to be at war with people I don’t know, even though I’ve been at war with my own countrymen my entire fucking life.

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Excerpted from https://www.facebook.com/scottpatrickabel/posts/10154261250553980, which you should definitely GO READ.