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DaveSZ
When The Levee Breaks
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| quote: | Originally posted by prolikewhoa
i don't know if this has already been addressed, i skimmed over the thread, but i think it's funny how homophobic people automatically assume that every gay person is the same and flaunts their sexuality and has parades and dress in drag and only have anal sex. it's ridiculous. not every straight person flaunts their sexuality, either.
the very reason that there are gay rights parades, civil rights protests, rallys, etc, is because there is a problem with them being accepted in their community.
if gays weren't discriminated against, they would have no need for parades to try and gain acceptance. it makes me so mad when people think that homophobia is okay because of the way a few people decide to act.
yes there are some gay people who embody the butch lesbian stereotype, as well as the effeminate gay man. who cares. there are people who fit all kinds of stereotypes. usually, in cases of intelligent people, an entire group of people can not be judged based on the follies of one person.
i have many many many gay friends, as i have been in theatre since 3rd grade. every single one of them knew from a very early age, even before they knew what sex was, that they were different from their peers. they knew they were gay before they even knew what gay was.
being gay is not a fad, a phase, or even a choice. it's part of who someone is. i can't bring myself to even fathom why someone should be denied the same rights as other people because of a characteristic they had nothing to do with.
gay marriage should be legal in ALL states. |
Very well said dear. 
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PRESIDENT BUSH: As you know, I'm a person who believes in judicial restraint, as opposed to judicial activism that takes the place of the Legislative Branch.[/i]
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Wow, what a liar. The fact that he would nominate a fascist like Priscilla R. Owen to the Federal Bench, whose conservative judicial colleagues have even referred to as a judicial activist, proves that. I suppose he's only against judicial activism if it conflicts with his views.
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rizo
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Location: sf south bay
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2093412/
| quote: | Dean's Kentucky campaign begins poorly: Letters received by Dean after he signed Vermont's civil-unions bill: "I was really sorry to read where you have allowed the passage of a bill recognizing queers to marry," wrote someone from Kentucky, "who vowed never to vacation in Vermont again." "I have been a Democrat all my life, but now that the Democrats are turning into queers, I am switching to the Republican Party. I hope you and all your queer buddies rot in hell."
Another said, "Dean Is a ****** Lover. All Homosexuals, Go to Vermont, Dean Loves You. All Normal People, Stay Away From Vermont. A State Full Of Perverts—Run By Perverts. Boycott Fag Run Vermont." On one fund-raising walk after the bill-signing, an elderly woman walked up to Dean and said, "You fucking, queer-loving son of a bitch." |
lol 
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Jan-07-2004 21:15
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DaveSZ
When The Levee Breaks
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Location: ATX
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The South has always been a champion of equal rights. Didn't you know that?  
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Lights out: In one of Dean's first major decisions as governor, he sided with power companies in favor of a 25-year contract to purchase electricity from Quebec. Environment groups opposed the project because of Hydro-Quebec's damming of state rivers; human-rights groups worried about the fate of the Cree Indians, whose land would be flooded; and consumer groups worried whether the plan would even save Vermont money. The consumer groups, at least, turned out to be right: "In the late 1990s, Vermont's two biggest power companies nearly became insolvent as they struggled to pay what turned out to be high costs for Quebec power." Vermont consumers and businesses received "steep rate increases."
Not-so-green Dean: As governor, Dean turned out to be pro-conservation but anti-regulation, a position that some environmentalists find hard to reconcile. The state bought and preserved more than 470,000 acres of wild land, but Dean's administration also gutted or ignored Vermont's environmental regulations in order to land new business development. Upon retirement, the executive officer of Vermont's Water Resources Board charged Dean's administration with underfunding the state's Agency of Natural Resources and with politicizing environmental science: "ANR has not been given the resources to adequately do its job and too often the scientifically sound recommendations by ANR technical staff are overruled in final permit decisions by political appointees." (Dean's budget chief admits in the book that some agencies, including the Department of Natural Resources, were underfunded: "I agree that they didn't have enough money to do what they were authorized to do.")
In general, Dean showed a disdain for Vermont's legal and regulatory processes in favor of ad hoc deal-making and what he called "common sense" and "reason." Dean's critics say he abandoned a 20-year approach of appointing locally respected officials to environmental commissions. Instead, he "seems to have looked to people who wouldn't oppose his philosophy, who wouldn't demand tiresome scientific data and who wouldn't mind working for a governor who might inject himself in cases," writes Hamilton E. Davis, former managing editor of the Burlington Free Press. Some of Dean's defenders argue that he "never really understood the damage he was doing to the regulatory system."
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That more or less cancels out the good he did with the civil unions thing though.
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