Taking Offense

[damaris]

dennis grace wrote:
> People don't get
> fired, evicted from their apartments, arrested in Georgia for lewd and
> lascivious conduct, drummed out of the military, accused of child
> molestation, beaten, raped, and generally reviled over their shoe-size.
> We're all happy to hear that the baron has so enlightened an attitude.
> Would that it were only so for much of the rest of our nation.

Lyonel,

Thanks for your words of support here.  I know His Excellency means well
and I am not singling him out but until you've walked in the "shoes" we 
wear, you can't possibly know the fear of losing your livlihood and/or 
life just because of who you are.  It felt good to read your words. 
-- 
Damaris of Greenhill /mka Susan Wieland
"Mead brewer extrodinaire"
---Azure, three labryses in pall inverted hafts to center
within a bordure or---

A great many people think they are thinking when they are
only rearranging their prejudices.  William James.