I thought this was wonderfully put. I wish more people were as wise and as brave as Mr. Fry. The video is a bit long, but worth your time. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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I have read about Oliver North in the past. Part of me liked him because of some of the sneaky things he did. But this completely changed my mind. How someone of his intelligence can really think that allowing gays to openly serve in the military is going to be a “burden to these youngsters” serving in the military? He says that this is like allowing pedophiles into the military? Hmm… I don’t see the connection. I doubt gay people are going to be a burden to people serving because frankly, they already do serve.
He says it will affect “readiness routine, and retention.” Does he think that people are not going to sign up for the military if gay people are allowed to serve? What about the 13,000 + men and women that have been dismissed under DADT? I think that’s a retention problem.
This guy’s an asshole.
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This is the very reason why I love Craig Ferguson so much. He just says it as it is. I am so tired of these family values politicians that are all for traditional marriages and deny my rights but yet they are having multiple affairs to their own marriage.
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Today Governor Mark Standford of South Carolina announced that he too had an affair with a Argentinean woman after disappearing this past weekend.
I did a little research and discovered that the Governor was indeed opposed to same sex marriage but it seems that he is more outspoken in trying to prohibit gay people from adopting children.
I would like to ask the Governor what values he is passing along to his children. Having an affair with a woman while married to their mother-that’s a great lesson. Taking a responsibility to govern a state and leaving the country cutting off all forms of contact, leaving the State of South Carolina without a sure leader in the event of an emergency. Good Job Governor!
To his credit, the Governor came clean about his affair and immediately stepped down from his post as President of the Republican Governors Association. He apologized to his wife and his children. Clearly, this man is not fit to suit the people of South Carolina and should step down from his job as Governor.
Isn’t great how people like this are making decisions about other people’s families when theirs are some of the most dysfunctional there are.
Goodbye Governor Stanford. Time to divorce and get a good job to pay alimony and child support. I hope your wife cleans you out.
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It seems like politician after politician have been surfacing with these scandals. The latest, Senator Ensign from Nevada. Mr. Ensign admitted having an extramarital affair with a woman that works as a staff member. Reportedly, this woman saw her salary double while the affair was happening. Also, the husband of the woman the Senator was having an affair with worked for the senator.It gets better. The following is a statement that I found on the Senator’s website regarding an amendment to the Constitution that would ban gay marriage.
“In order to defend the institution of marriage, uphold the rights of individual states, and maintain the will of the people, I believe we are compelled to amend our country’s constitution.
The effort to pass a constitutional amendment reaffirming marriage as being between a man and a woman only is being undertaken strictly as a defense of marriage against the attempt to redefine it and, in the process, weaken it.
Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution.”
I don’t even know where to begin. Apparently gay marriage is a threat to marriage because gay people are going to weaken the meaning of it. Also, the Senator claims that marriage is an important institution in this country and protecting that institution is so important that he supports an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit gay people from marrying.
Anger is beyond how I feel about this man. I am not at all a violent person. I have never hurt anyone, but I think I would feel very compelled if I were ever in his presence. How dare he? Really? He let himself, his constituents, his staff, and his country down.
If I were his wife, I would immediately sue for a divorce and I would lawyer up. I would take everything I could. I would issue a public statement announcing the pending divorce and make a statement that his behavior is unacceptable on every level. I would call for his immediate resignation.
If I were the Senator’s advisor, I would urge him to immediately resign from his position in the Senate, issue a public apology to everyone affected and go out of the public eye for the rest of his life.
I consider myself a conservative. I refuse to call myself a Republican especially when there is so much of this sort of thing happening.
I could go on and on about this. I am disgusted.
Below is a video from the Rachel Maddow show that talks about this fiasco. I am becoming quite fond of her show. She’s very liberal but she is fair, and humorous.
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A week or so ago, I commented on Nathan’s Blog saying that we should give Obama more time to deal with gay rights issues (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, gay marriage.) I said that Obama was dealing with a collapsing economy, two wars, and the failure of America’s auto industry. After watching this bit from the Racheal Maddow show, I realized that it’s not that Obama has not got around to these gay rights, it’s that he is blatantly ignoring it.
As the video shows, Obama certainly used the promise to a vicious supporter of gay rights during the campaign and he certainly isn’t living up to his expectations. It is not that Obama doesn’t have the time to address theses issues, it’s that he is choosing not to. The President has not issued a halt to investigating suspected gay people while he works on abolishing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Not only has the President passively not supported these gay rights, he actually actively has fired people from the military during his administration by proceeding with court cases challenging their dismissal.
So maybe all of this talk about “hope” and “change” was just a bunch of crap that got him elected because this clearly isn’t the change that I thought I saw coming. Hopefully, Obama will come around and finally stand by all of those campaign promises.
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So today is a big day for gay people in California and in the United States. Today is the day when the California Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8. The decision by the Court is expected to be filed at 10AM PST.
The decision is going to be monumental any way it goes. Should Proposition 8 be upheld by the court, it would in affect end gay marriages in that state and it could annul all of the same sex couples that were already married in that state. The court could also rule that the marriages that took place before Prop 8 went into effect are legal while there will be no subsequent same sex marriages. If either of these rulings come down from the Court, this may be the fuel to the fire that this movement needs. I can’t imagine that a decision like that would go over without protest especially in California.
The court could also rule that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. This would be a huge victory for the Gay Right Movement. This would certainly be cause for celebration as it would set the standard that these amendments are legally flawed.
Any way that the court decides to rule will be monumental.I sense that this issues is gaining a lot of movement in the right direction. I will be posting later today after the California Supreme Court files its ruling.
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I recently read an article that discusses a very serious and growing problem in Iraq. There have been many killings of men simply because they are gay. In an article by The National, an executioner equates his work to a surgeon cutting diseased parts off of a body to save the rest. Part of his job entails executing “men copying the ways of women.” He goes onto say, “We see this [homosexuality] as a serious illness in the community that has been spreading rapidly among the youth after it was brought in from the outside by American soldiers,These are not the habits of Iraq or our community and we must eliminate them.”
I encourage you all to read the article. It put things into persepctive for me. While gay people are fighting for their right to enter into a maritial contract here in the US, in Iraq gay people are fighting for their life. While I sometimes have to think of what people may think or say to me if they find out that I am gay, men in Iraq worry about living past that.
While it is certainly important that here in the US gay people have the right to marry, it seems somewhat petty when you examine how bad it could really be. It also makes me proud to be an American and it makes me appreciate my country, culture, and lifestyle that much more.
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