Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
The American government recognizes all sorts of groups of Americans. Unlike other nations that have a culture created in a melting pot. We're distinctly different than other nations, though it looks like the rest of the world is having episodic seizures over becoming America-like.Lesbians should be free to behave sexually with other consenting adult women as they want.
Gay men should be able to behave sexually with other consenting gay adults as they want.
The government shouldn’t be in the business of opposing those rights NOR SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT engage in “celebrating” it.
Hyphenated-Americans
Celebrating what has made America such a great nations -- it's diversity make-up, it's welcoming to others (thought often a struggle to rise up to casualness).
The USA changed shortly after it's founding. The USA was founded as British (English) subjects asserting their rights and liberties. Something no other nation at the time was equal with. Ben Franklin's infamous warnings about huge immigration of "swarthy Germans" was endangering the prized "British ways"