Comments on: Just How Gay Is the Right? http://www.sortroom.net/2005/05/just-how-gay-is-the-right-new-york-times/ Filtering through the murky water to highlight what most people sent to page two. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick http://www.sortroom.net/2005/05/just-how-gay-is-the-right-new-york-times/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Patrick Tue, 17 May 2005 08:10:05 +0000 http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2005/05/17/just-how-gay-is-the-right-new-york-times/#comment-93 I disagree with both of your examples there though: I think in the Jeff Gannon case was not that he was gay but that he way a hypocrite and that he had greater access than the rest of the White House press pool. His sexuality wasn't what in question, it was the secrets and lies behind how he got in there. And what about the <a href="http://www.logcabin.org/" rel="nofollow">Log Cabin Republicans</a>? They're patriots in all definitions of the word, especially the ones where Ann Coulter likes to say that liberals aren't patriotic. I don't think anyone is trying to silence them, in fact I think people across 'the community' would like to embrace them as much as possible because they show the diversity that is possible when one isn't prejudiced. And I think a campaign for equal rights is not unprecedented because the civil rights movement showed what could be done when people stop creating boundaries between groups, we're all the same, just a little different. Terri Shiavo's case: that was trying to change the law by going <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/22/schiavo/" rel="nofollow">over the head</a> of the closest relation: her husband. Where's the sanctity of marriage there? Anyway, thanks for your comment, I appreciate the feedback. I disagree with both of your examples there though: I think in the Jeff Gannon case was not that he was gay but that he way a hypocrite and that he had greater access than the rest of the White House press pool. His sexuality wasn’t what in question, it was the secrets and lies behind how he got in there. And what about the Log Cabin Republicans? They’re patriots in all definitions of the word, especially the ones where Ann Coulter likes to say that liberals aren’t patriotic. I don’t think anyone is trying to silence them, in fact I think people across ‘the community’ would like to embrace them as much as possible because they show the diversity that is possible when one isn’t prejudiced.
And I think a campaign for equal rights is not unprecedented because the civil rights movement showed what could be done when people stop creating boundaries between groups, we’re all the same, just a little different. Terri Shiavo’s case: that was trying to change the law by going over the head of the closest relation: her husband. Where’s the sanctity of marriage there?

Anyway, thanks for your comment, I appreciate the feedback.

]]> By: Bruce Giese http://www.sortroom.net/2005/05/just-how-gay-is-the-right-new-york-times/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Bruce Giese Tue, 17 May 2005 02:19:45 +0000 http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2005/05/17/just-how-gay-is-the-right-new-york-times/#comment-90 "Even as it has ceased to be a crime or necessarily a political career-breaker to be gay, unprincipled gay-baiting has mushroomed into a full-fledged political movement." You mean like making a big deal about the sexuality of White House reporters that one doesn't agree with (posting their naked photos on the Internet)? Or silencing the Gay Patriot or any gay (or minority for that matter) who doesn't follow the accepted dogma? It seems to me that the ones making a big issue of sexual preferences, forcing their political views into unprecedented changes in the law are the liberals at this point in time. “Even as it has ceased to be a crime or necessarily a political career-breaker to be gay, unprincipled gay-baiting has mushroomed into a full-fledged political movement.”

You mean like making a big deal about the sexuality of White House reporters that one doesn’t agree with (posting their naked photos on the Internet)? Or silencing the Gay Patriot or any gay (or minority for that matter) who doesn’t follow the accepted dogma?

It seems to me that the ones making a big issue of sexual preferences, forcing their political views into unprecedented changes in the law are the liberals at this point in time.

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