Henry Rollins is best known for being the front man for the influential punk band Black Flag. He is also an activist,actor,spoken word artist, and now blogger, among other things. He has traveled the world over and seen things other people can only dream of or have nightmares of. His opinions are not sugar coated and I personally LOVE that. In his blog from Vanity Fair, named Straight Talk Espresso he gives his opinions with no remorse and they thankfully let him.
In the blog from him entitled The Defense of Marriage Act blues he argues for equal rights for homosexuals and to deal with more important issue's at hand such as the high unemployment rate. He has always been very vocal about his views regarding homosexuality, which has lead to some speculation and an awesome comic involving him and fellow musician Glenn Danzig called Glenn and Henry Forever. I have to whole heartedly agree with him on this one. I have many homosexual friends and if something happened to them I know their parents would not honor their wishes but their partner would. I concur with him that there are also many other things that need to have the effort put into them that matter much more than some out dated rule. I know his audience is people who are already into him and probably pretty liberal but I love how he doesn't mince words. Sometimes things need to be said in a blunt non-sugar coated way and he is just the person to do that. He probably won't convince anyone to see his way that doesn't already but then again those people,most likely, aren't going to be reading his blog.
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