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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 04/18/2006 : 08:59:31
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Beautiful, just beautiful: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=96140
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US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura launched the annual White House Easter egg party on Monday while managing to avoid any awkward moments with dozens of gay couples and their children who attended the outdoor event.
My favorite line of hypocrisy is this: "conservatives have condemned as an attempt to politicize a family event." Who is "politicizing a family event" here, legitimate families attending an egg hunt that was open to them, or the people bringing attention to them through public criticism?
I take it as a good political sign that the Bush's felt obligated to play nice. Like the critics who are calling accusations of "politicizing a family event", conservatives are dance, dance, dancing around the whole issue of gay marriage oh so delicately! Because if they say what they mean, they so obviously look like what they are: big fat bigots.
Now the question is whether the White House will "quietly" change the rules so that next year instead of a child under seven and "no more than two adults", the only people able to attend will be a child and "no more than two adults of the opposite sex".
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Edited by - marfknox on 04/18/2006 09:01:05
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pleco
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USA
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 09:10:03 [Permalink]
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"no more than two adults of the opposite sex who are married", because we wouldn't want any "civil unions" and other immoral fornicators around either. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 11:14:27 [Permalink]
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That was a wonderful event. The single-sex couples and their kids pulled this off with exactly the right touch. I'm of a mind that it will be very difficult to undo this little bit of progress, now that it's been done. Hopefully, by the time there's a much different Administration occupying the White House, these children and their single-sex parents won't even feel the need to identify themselves with their rainbow-colored leis. That will symbolize progress.
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Robb
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USA
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 11:33:06 [Permalink]
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| So President Bush gets bad press even when there is no news to report. It would be a story if the couples were not allowed to attend. Nothing happened except gay couples got to attened a White House function that was for families with children. Isn't that what gay couples want. Now that they did it with no resistance from the White House, they still run a derogeratory story against President Bush. Not surprising. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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pleco
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 11:38:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
So President Bush gets bad press even when there is no news to report. It would be a story if the couples were not allowed to attend. Nothing happened except gay couples got to attened a White House function that was for families with children. Isn't that what gay couples want. Now that they did it with no resistance from the White House, they still run a derogeratory story against President Bush. Not surprising.
I didn't read it as Bush getting bad press on this particular event. The bad press is the religious groups complaining about the President allowing them to attend in the first place. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 11:48:22 [Permalink]
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Robb wrote: quote:
Nothing happened except gay couples got to attened a White House function that was for families with children. Isn't that what gay couples want.
Actually, a public statement was made that there are many gay families raising children who are unable to get the benefits of legal marriage. They targeted the White House and Bush because he has stated numerous times that he is against both gay marriage and federal partnership benefits that would mimick heterosexual marriage. Oh, and that little Constitutional Ammendment thingy that keeps being brought up everyonce in a while. So, yeah, it was more than gay familes attending an event - it was citizens taking peaceful action against discrimination against them.
And no, they don't just want to be able to attend the White House's Easter Egg hunt. They want to get married. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 12:18:38 [Permalink]
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Someone with whom we are all familiar has a pithy comment on it, among a couple of others at least as chilling: quote:
2. Children sing songs in praise of the government, no matter how incompetent and dangerous they've been to those children. At the gay-infused White House Easter egg hunt, a group of "Katrina Kids" sang a song about how major great President Bush, Congress, and FEMA have been in helping them. It's a little like a National Guard member thanking Bush for sending him to Iraq 'cause it gets him out of the house. Except creepier. The song was sung to the tune of that song of blind optimism by Cy Coleman, "Hey, Look Me Over," which has the prescient line, "I figure whenever you're down and out, the only way is up." Truer words, motherfuckers, truer words.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 12:34:22 [Permalink]
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| That is quite a story, filthy. It's quite shocking we as a free country have allowed such incredible propaganda from our government to pervade the media as if nothing were amiss. I want my Soma! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/18/2006 : 22:51:27 [Permalink]
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The final sad chapter to this story was that President Bush was a no-show when those who'd signed up (on a first-come, first-served basis), including the gay-parent families, had their White House Egg Roll. Instead, Bush appeared only for a separate, "special" Egg Roll for youth volunteers and Katrina victim kids, during which the "questionable" families were not allowed in.
Considering how lucky the Katrina kids are to have even survived Bush and his cronies' handling of that disaster, which can be described as somewhere on the scale between incompetence and neglectfully racist, the irony is overwhelming.
Also, at the last minute, the entrance rules were changed by the White House, to ignore the first-come, first-served arrangement under which parents had stood in line.
To publicly snub the kids of same-sex parents, as well as those of all the other people who'd waited line to sign up, is bigoted and despicable.
Shame on you, George W. Bush.
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