http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/opinion/23presidentsspeech.html
On 1/22/11, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, not the main thrust.
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
>>
>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/
>> * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls.
>> * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
>
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
--
Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
--
Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/
* It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls.
* Read the latest breaking news, and more.
No comments:
Post a Comment