President Clinton declares June Gay Pride Month

[JackBeck]

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/blgaylesproc.htm

"With each passing year the American people become more receptive to diversity and more open to those who are different from themselves. Our Nation is at last realizing that gays and lesbians must no longer be "strangers among friends," as the civil rights pioneer David Mixner once noted. Rather, we must finally recognize these Americans for what they are: our colleagues and neighbors, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, friends and partners."

And where are we now?

Today, President Bush is scheduled to announce at a press conference in the Rose Garden his full backing of a Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

During Gay Pride Month.

And on the 25th Anniversary of the first reported cases by the CDC of what would be later called AIDS.

If this isn't a slap across the face of every member of the GLBT community and their straight allies, I don't know what else could be.

This at the least, the most arrogant move time-wise, at most, disgustingly intentional. What a sickening disregard (no surprise here) of the thousands of GLBT members of a community who were not afraid to sit next to their dying brothers. Not afraid, when most everyone else was, to wipe the brow, to hold the hand, to change the sheets dirtied from uncontrollable chronic diarrhea, or to kiss their friend on the lips as they passed away since there was no treatment or hope.

I can't begin to tell you the sadness I feel today as my life, my community, will be trotted out in front of the cameras one more time, with the White House as a backdrop, to be mocked and ridiculed. I may not have agreed with many things that Bill Clinton signed into law (DOMA, "DADT"), but I would like to say a small "Thank You", to a man who saw me as another human being. Another American citizen, who deserved to be as equal as everyone else.

[debbierlus]

1. It is SICK what they are doing.

It is discrimination - plain and simple.

The ironic thing is that the Bush adminstration is FULL of self hating gay men.

And, the chairman of the GOP is gay!

They are evil, evil, evil.

[Deja Q]

3. WHY are they hated?

Or is it more fun just to hate?

Or is it about "self hate", but "I have money and I want to keep it, so I'm going to forget what I fuck while I go fuck it"?

[JackBeck]

4. Money and power.

Self-hating homosexuals who put greed and power above love for family and friends.

[Deja Q]

2. Naturally. What did you expect from a group of people who

use every minor issue to keep splintering Americans apart, while telling us they are "uniters" and not "dividers"?

BTW: What community? I typically get laughed at by most of mine.
I

[JackBeck]

5. The community that was formed when an as of yet discovered

and named virus was ravaging predominately gay men in urban environments. A community, that 25 years ago, came together to care for their dying members when a government wanted to quarantine and brand them with their status so they could be shunned. Is this the same community 25 years later? No. Every group has members that are obnoxious and cruel. I bartended in a gay bar for 8 years. I've seen how nasty people can be. But that's not the point of my OP. I don't know you hypno, nor do I know those who laugh at you, so I can't apologize for them. But it must really suck to be them if the only way they can make themselves feel better is at the expense of others.

[JackBeck]

6. Update: Bush has pulled the press conference from the Rose Garden.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/CNN_Bush_moves_gay_marriage_press_0605.html