Goi see the complete series at this thread in The New York Times.
Stupid that you missed all the rest with your narrow minded view.
On 1/22/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Amazing. With all the problems in this country, with job losses and
> unemployment close to 10% reported and probably close to twice that in
> actuality, with deficits increasing in leaps and bounds and the rotten
> laws passed by this past congress that tripled the deficit, with the
> problems in the Obamacare that crop up on almost a daily basis, with 2
> wars going on and our military spread all over the world (korea,
> Germany, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc), with the illegal
> immigration problems - and Tommy and Savage think the main thrust of the
> SOTU should be gay rights. OK. Got it. Just how stupid do you have to
> be to come up with this one.
>
> On 01/22/2011 10:02 PM, Tommy News wrote:
>> A Gay Agenda for Everyone
>> By DAN SAVAGE
>>
>> I'm not an idiot: Now that the Republicans hold the House, only
>> wishful thinkers and the deeply delusional expect to see any movement
>> on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legislative agenda this
>> year or next. Nevertheless, President Obama should address gay rights
>> in his State of the Union speech this week, and he should tackle the
>> biggest, most meaningful right of them all: the right to marry.
>>
>> When he was a candidate for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, Mr.
>> Obama told a gay publication that he supported "legalizing same-sex
>> marriages." Twelve years later, right about the time he decided to run
>> for president, he came out against marriage equality. But, as the
>> president likes to say, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it
>> bends toward justice." Where a Gallup poll in 1996 found that just 27
>> percent of the nation supported equal marriage rights for same-sex
>> couples, a CNN poll last summer found that a majority now supports
>> marriage equality.
>>
>> The president — perhaps after introducing Daniel Hernandez Jr., the
>> openly gay intern credited with saving Representative Gabrielle
>> Giffords's life — should declare that the trend is clear: this country
>> increasingly believes that Mr. Hernandez and other lesbian, gay,
>> bisexual and transgender Americans should have all the same rights and
>> responsibilities as other citizens.
>>
>> Gay Americans are eventually going to win on marriage just like we won
>> on military service, the president should tell Congress, so why not
>> save everyone on both sides of the debate a lot of time, trouble and
>> money by approving the entire gay rights agenda? Send the Employment
>> Non-Discrimination Act, the Student Non-Discrimination Act, the
>> Uniting American Families Act and the repeal of the odious Defense of
>> Marriage Act to his desk for his signature.
>>
>> He can assure the lawmakers that, yes, there's something in it for
>> Americans who disapprove of homosexuality too.
>>
>> Social conservatives long to raise their children in a country where
>> they don't have to hear about homosexuality every time they turn on
>> the news. I'd like raise my son in a country like that too. And guess
>> what? In countries like Canada — where the fight over gay rights is
>> essentially over, where there is gay marriage, open military service
>> and employment protections — homosexuality hardly ever makes the front
>> pages of newspapers. There's nothing much to report.
>>
>> Conservatives can't get rid of us, but they can hear less from and
>> about us. They just have to bend toward justice.
>>
>> More:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/opinion/23savage.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Tommy
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