Ma'am;... I once worked with a woman millwright that everyone said was once a man... The women in the auto plant thought she was a man too, and asked the employer to keep her out of their restrooms... I asked, and she said she was a women and had given birth to some number of children... But she did have a masculine build and facial features... I don't care now... I didn't care then... It was a bi sexual girl who taught me to be a better man... I have spent time with homosexuals of every stripe... It is not a reflection of human character; but it is a mistake to exclude people on the basis of any quality not on its own a moral defect... If I had to walk anywhere with that millwright; if we got around a crowd, I was likely to grab her hand and swing it like we were friends on a walk... I know it grossed people out... I could afford to be amused... It was not I who was suffering the insult, and the discrimination... It was attributed to Socrates; that once asked when there would be Justice in Athens said: There will be Justice in Athens when those not injured by injustice are as indignant as those who are... We should all be indignant, whether injured or not... When we are quiet, we empower injustice, and by our silence we justify injustice... You are right to sound off about it... Consider me as sounded off as well... If we will ever be a true nation; we have got to quit torturing the body politic... Thanks...Sweeney

I MEAN: never be a true nation... Damned fingers... Thanks...Sweeney