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I would like to thank the Log Cabin Republicans for all of their hard work.
The way their party wants to write discrimination into our constitutions — well
they must be beaming with pride!
If all of us voted, gay Republicans excluded, Bush and company won’t
be in office waging wars against innocent civilians and against civil liberties
granted by the Constitution. So get up off your asses and vote him outta office!
Patrick Guerriero of Log Cabin is a sell out and a traitor to the gay community.
It’s pretty sad for Log Cabin when the Republicans don’t want them
and they are not respected in the majority of the gay and lesbian community.
Why is it that most gay Republicans are so discreet about their views? Because
they know that they are wrong. My advice to LCR is see a therapist and get
over your self-hate.
Hopefully the million gullible gay Republicans who naively thought they were
voting for a “uniter” in 2000 now see the George W. Bush the rest
of us saw.
The GOP platform is completely anti-gay and Bush is leading the call to rob
us of marriage forever. Voting Republican this year doesn’t take a brain,
just half of one. I don’t vote my crotch, I only vote for people who
support my rights and dignity as a human being!
I am so sick of hearing put downs on Republicans over gay issues. Remember
all the good Clinton did for gays when he was in office? Do the Defense of
Marriage Act and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell ring a bell for anybody?
I was at the gym on an Army base watching when President Bush went on TV making
his ridiculous call for a constitutional
amendment to ban gay marriage. The
sound on the TV was turned down, but there was a caption under Bush’s
face that read “A Preemptive Strike?” referring to this federal
marriage amendment. A soldier walked past me, noticed the caption and asked, “Who’s
Bush attacking now?” I replied, “The U.S. Constitution.”
The Constitution is not in place to provide protection for the religious institution
of marriage but rather for the protection of all the citizens of the United
States.
“Marriage” is a term that is waved like a flag by conservatives
and traditionalists and it is used as banner by the “right” all
the time. So how is it that when it comes to gay “marriage,” suddenly
it’s too liberal, and not acceptable?
Give heterosexuals and homosexuals equal rights: Ban all marriage in the USA!
Every gay and lesbian tax-paying citizen in the U.S. must file a heterosexually-biased
government tax return this year. But where we have the option of choosing to
file “single,” “married,” “married filing jointly,” etc.,
wouldn’t it be fun if every gay person crossed out those options and
wrote “GAY” or “LESBIAN” in its place?
If marriage is “the most fundamental institution of civilization” according
to George Bush, what is divorce? Surely then divorce is the destruction of
the most fundamental institution of civilization and what, then, is the president
doing to bring about the end of divorce?
It looks like the queer community is getting dissed from all sides — not
just by the usual Republican suspects but by fair-weather “friends” among
the leading Democratic candidates. John Kerry has explicitly stated he supports
an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution. With friends
like these, who needs enemies? We’re being asked to cast our votes for “kinder
and gentler” bigotry. There are two candidates in the race — Dennis
Kucinich and Al Sharpton — who support gay marriage. They have been largely
ignored by the media and marginalized by the pundits, but they represent our
best hope of influencing the Democratic Party’s platform and its eventual
nominee.
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