Repub Extreme Regime Having A Red Herring Feigned
FIT About Demo Kerry's Kind Comment Regarding Out
Lesbian Veep Daughter Mary Cheney When Answering
Debate Question About Gay Men And Women
Afterward Second Lady Lynne Cheney Mother Of
Lesbian Daughter And Author Of Lesbian Sex Scenes
Novel "Sisters" Called Kerry "not a good man"
Leaders Of Repub Party Whose Official Party Platform
Includes A Strong "Second Class Citizen" Clause About Gay
People Are Joining The Rove Orchestrated Chorus Of
Manipulated Upset
The White House Sez:
"The President of the United States does not believe it was
appropriate for Sen. Kerry to bring up Mary Cheney at the
debate"
New York City Mayor Bloomberg Sez:
"I think it was inappropriate...everybody's orientation is their
own business.... Nobody should be talking about that"
Openly Lesbian Mary Cheney Has Dedicated Her Career To
Visible Outreach To The Gay Community Is Publicly
Involved In Committed Lesbian Relationship Appeared At
Repub Convention And On Stage At Second Debate With Her
Lesbian Lover
Patrick Guerierro Head Of Repub Gay "Log Cabin" Group
Sez To CNN:
"The reality is the type of outrage that is being expressed by
some Republicans should be expressed at themselves.
They've decided to use gay families as wedge issues across
America in swing states -- that is truly outrageous"
Repub Gay Blogger Andrew Sullivan Sez:
"Victimize? All Kerry did was invoke the veep's daughter to
point out that obviously homosexuality isn't a choice, in any
meaningful sense. The only way you can believe that citing
Mary Cheney amounts to 'victimization' is if you believe
someone's sexual orientation is something shameful. Well, it
isn't. What's revealing is that this truly does expose the
homophobia of so many - even in the mildest
'we'll-tolerate-you-but-shut-up-and-don't-complain' form.
Mickey Kaus, for his part, cannot see any reason for Kerry to
mention Mary except as some Machiavellian scheme to
pander to bigots. Again: huh? Couldn't it just be that Kerry
thinks of gay people as human beings like straight people -
and mentioning their lives is not something we should shrink
from? Isn't that the simplest interpretation? In many speeches
on marriage rights, I cite Mary Cheney. Why? Because it
exposes the rank hypocrisy of people like president Bush and
Dick and Lynne Cheney who don't believe gays are
anti-family demons but want to win the votes of people who
do. I'm not outing any gay person. I'm outing the double
standards of straight ones. They've had it every which way
for decades, when gay people were invisible. Now they have
to choose.
DOUBLE STANDARDS: Let me give you an example of the
double standards here. I remember once being driven around
by a charming woman on a stop on a book tour. We talked
about my book, and she averred, after chatting all day, that
she had nothing against gay people, she just wished they
wouldn't 'bring it up' all the time. I responded: 'But you've
been talking about your heterosexuality ever since I got in the
car.' She said: 'I haven't. I've never once discussed sex.' My
response: 'Within two minutes, you mentioned your children
and your husband. You talked about your son's work at high
school. You mentioned your husband's line of work. And on
and on. You wear your heterosexuality on your sleeve all the
time. And that's fine. But if I so much as mention the fact that
I'm gay, I'm told it's all I care about, and that I should pipe
down. Don't you see the double standard?' Candidates
mention their families all the time. An entire question last
night was devoted to the relationship between men and their
wives and daughters. Mentioning Mary Cheney is no more
and no less offensive than that. What is offensive is denying
gay couples equal rights in the constitution itself. Why don't
conservatives get exorcised about that?
Bush and Cheney are closet tolerants. They have no problem
with gay people personally; but they use hostility to gay
people for political purposes, even if it means attacking
members of their own families. What they are currently
objecting to is the fact that their hypocrisy has been exposed.
To which the only answer is: if you don't want to be exposed
as a hypocrite, don't be one.
But the Kerry mo has been stopped, I'd say. And the Mary
Cheney thing is a brilliant maneuver by the Republicans. Rove
knows that most people do find mentioning someone's
daughter's lesbianism to be distasteful and gratuitous. So he
can work it to great effect, exploiting homophobia while
claiming to be defending gays. Again: masterful jujitsu. I tip
my hat to the guy. Poisonous, but effective."
Canadian Neighbor Blogger Cathie Sez:
"Gays ARE born, not made -- THAT'S the issue
In the dispute over Kerry's so-called 'outing' of Mary Cheney,
Kerry's defenders are missing the point. A Salon article sums
it up at a personal level by contending that Lynne Cheney is
embarrassed that her daughter is gay. No doubt she is, but
Salon misses the larger issue here. Kerry has the temerity to
state that the religious right is wrong. Kerry has challenged
the right-wing conviction that gays are made, not born. And
he uses Cheney's very own daughter as an example -- no
wonder Cheney and his wife were mad. They really were
hoping, I suppose, that no one would notice that Mary
Cheney's very existence proves that one of the most heartfelt
beliefs of their electoral base is wrong, wrong, wrong. No
wonder the family keeps her under wraps at events like the
convention. Only if you believe, as the religious right do, that
being gay is a 'lifestyle choice' can you justify the hatefest of
discrimination against gays which stains American public
discourse and policies. If America accepts that Kerry is
correct, that gays are born not made, then discriminating
against gays is no more justifiable than discriminating against
blacks, or against people in wheelchairs -- and then, it's bye
bye constitutional amendment, bye bye workplace
discrimination, bye bye sodomy laws, hello gay marriage.
And of course, it appears to be an Article of Faith for
Republicans that they DARE NOT demonstrate any actual
leadership toward educating or changing public opinion, but
instead MUST pander to the beliefs of their base at all times,
however hateful and misguided they are"
Intuitive*Analysis
LOTS Is Happening Here!
The Manipulative Hypnosis Mastery Of Karl Rove Is
Effectively Taking The Profit Puffing Media Focus AWAY
From GWB's LIE That He Never Said He Was UNconcerned
About Osama bin Laden
The Cheney Parents Are In A Spiritual Squeeze Play
Caught Up In Uncomfortable Public Intellectual Contradiction
Love Of And Acknowledgment Of Their Daughter At The
Same Time LEADING The Enemy Charge AGAINST Her
Very BEING The UNtidy Effects Are Showing On The
National Stage
Pray For Understanding Acceptance And Rights For
ALL Human Beings
And For All Parents To NOT Foolishly Feel Guilty About
The Way God Created Their Children
LINK: Sisters - Mother Lynn Cheney's Novel Of Strong
Independent Women In The American Frontier
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