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June is Pride Month, and acts of solidarity and support are arising everywhere. Some are initiated from joy and some from pain. The latter category was beautifully realized Sunday when 4,000 citizens in Portland Oregon held hands in the rain across the Hawthorne Bridge to stand together with two gay men who were attacked for holding hands one week prior. One of the men who had been victimized, Brad Forkner, (who was beaten along with Christopher Rosevear) said, “This is not the first time I have feared for my safety or my life and, sadly, I don’t expect it to be the last. What I want to talk about is a much larger cultural issue we have with making different people feel like they’re worth less than normal people, as if there is such a thing as “normal.” In this instance, it was because we are gay.” You would be hard-pressed to find a truer expression of “What God has joined together let no man put asunder”
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