On 1/22/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You still read that rag??? WHY??????
>
> On 01/22/2011 10:58 PM, Tommy News wrote:
>> Here are the others you obviously missed:
>>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Have a great day,
>>> Tommy
>>>
>>
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