John & Jay are very serious this week. Until the discussion turns to “Grab & Grin,” Barney Frank and kiddie pools. Enjoy!
In this week’s “Gay Agenda,” Jennifer Vanasco and John Polly try to figure out what “Gay marriage doesn’t matter” (paraphrasing there…) means when spoken by a Democratic presidential candidate.
Plus, why it sucks to be gay come tax time, and the truth behind the candidate’s first jobs. Who was the kiddie pool enforcer? Who hurt themselves scooping ice cream?
Posted: Mar. 27. 2008 at 4:10 PM EDT
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In explaining her opposition to same-sex marriage, Hillary Clinton has said that "Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage always has been, between a man and a woman."
http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/p/HillaryClinton.htm
Hillary has repeatedly stressed her moral opposition to same-sex marriage based on what she sees as religious proscriptions.
And while I would agree with you that homophobia and misogyny are inextricably linked, it simply doesn't follow that electing a woman president will "automatically" help the cause of LGBT rights; consider the example of Margaret Thatcher, who actually pushed Clause 28 through the British parliament in order to prohibit the 'promotion' of homosexuality by government authorities -- a statute that the otherwise problematic Tony Blair (a man, incidentally) led parliament in repealing.
Now when it comes to gay issues, we are not such a united bunch of States. When candidates like Barack Obama publicly say, "as a Christian I will never accept gay marriage," it makes me cringe that people are voting for this "so far left liberal that he is back on the right."
Obama will do _nothing_ for the gay community and is just pandering to the queer base when he makes statements like this one.
Why don't the LGBT see that with Sen. Hillary Clinton as our President it will automatically help our cause. Lifting up the status of women in our society will directly affect LGBT rights - period. We need to recognize that homophobia is so deeply connected with sexism.
It's time to change who wears the pants in the White House and I am speechless why queers would ever vote for Barack and his Christian nut-wing flavor of "we will never accept you gays so let's leave it up to the States to decide what to do with ya I have bigger more important issue to discuss." He fundamentally has faith-based issues with us so why are we trying to further his voice?
Great if you live on the coasts, but I am screwed here in the Midwest.
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
You want to choose between two evils, thats your problem.
Oregon's equal rights laws are under attack (check out other posts at this blog that talk about it) so it is a fair observation that Obama's ambiguous remarks can be interpreted as either dismissive or supportive.
That isn't good enough. In fact, it is exactly the kind of baiting that he talks about in his glorious speech on race. He can't say it is wrong to use race to gin up votes with any credibility when he is using sexual minorities in the same way.
Of course one may hear what one wants. He's not a superhero, and he does have to handle the fact that a majority of 'mericans (the people that vote for him) don't support marriage.
Sorry, Casey and Patrick, Hillary Clinton will never, ever be president, nor does she deserve to be after her cynical war vote and egregious, racist behavior during the primary campaign. It's too bad that some gays care only about gays.
Furthermore, regarding this weeks VLOG - you suggest that McCain should call himself the Florida Flame. Actually, Charlie Crist already has that title...
Let's not forget where Barack Obama was speaking, Oregon. Obama knew exactly what he was saying and doing. As we know, Barack Obama is not for gay marriage. For him to have a love fest with Melissa (I've done nothing for gays) Etheridge is not going to change anything.
So you know, my sister was at a rally of Obama's in Iowa, where he did the same thing. I was at rally of his in Arizona, again he made the same comments.
My partner, who use to work with Michelle Obama at University of Chicago Hospitals. Said, Michelle is very anti gay.
Why is the controversy within the DNC party re gays, not being discussed here. Howard Dean's comments, the Donna Brizalle issue should be a point of serious interest.