Re: State of The Union Address: A Gay Agenda for Everyone

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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>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
>>
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