| The right wing's anti-gay rhetoric is in at least some instances a case of the guilty dog barking loudest. |
| [T]his has been a consistent pattern throughout the 30-year war. Terry Dolan, a closeted gay man, ran the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which as far back as 1980 was putting out fund-raising letters that said, "Our nation's moral fiber is being weakened by the growing homosexual movement and the fanatical E.R.A. pushers (many of whom publicly brag they are lesbians)." (Dolan recanted and endorsed gay rights before he died of AIDS in 1986.)
The latest boldface name to marry his same-sex partner in Massachusetts is Arthur Finkelstein, the political operative behind the electoral success of Jesse Helms, a senator so homophobic he voted in the minority of the 97-to-3 reauthorization of the Ryan White act for AIDS funding and treatment in 1995. But surely the most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose double life has just been exposed by the local paper, The Spokesman-Review. Mr. West's long, successful political career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to lure them with gifts and favors. (He has denied accusations of abusing boys when he was a Boy Scout leader some 25 years ago.) Not unlike the Roy Cohn of "Angels in America" - who describes himself as "a heterosexual man" who has sex "with guys" - Mr. West has said he had "relations with adult men" but doesn't "characterize" himself as gay. This is more than hypocrisy - it's pathology. Source: "Just How Gay Is the Right?" by FRANK RICH - New York Times - May 15, 2005 |
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| Well, I do suppose we have to say "Gay" instead of pervert so the politicly correct advocates wont come down on us (No pun intended}. They are in our schools spreading the " Its natural and I was born that way." school of thought. The liberals,democrats, who for the most part want to surrender to the terrorist are solidly behind them. So much for America, our morals, etc. No wonder we cant even win a war anymore. | 2/26/2007 | |
| First, what does "surrender to the terrorist" have to do with this topic?
Next, what moral code does equal rights violate? Finally, are you saying that we can't win a war (a dubious assumption by itself) because gay people are teaching in the schools? Do you have research or evidence to support that? |
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