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June 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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And the impact of companies like Siemens and Nokia who are helping the Iranian government monitor and censor the Internet.

June 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm

LIES! Beliefs must be carved in TITANIUM!

“You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday.”
- Stephen Colbert

Don’t hold your breath. Obama won’t have a public reaction to this. Dodd will be ignored. The reps’ letter will be ignored. DOMA and DADT will be ignored. If the heat gets too much he will do another lame photo-op with (so called) gay leaders to provide some faux benefit to GLBT partners.

We were duped into believing that “Yes We Can” meant “Yes We Will.”

It doesn’t matter, really.

I agree wholeheartedly. I’m just kind of sick of those who are homophobic until they find out someone they love is gay or lesbian.

I think most would agree Dick Cheney would not feel the way he does on this subject were it not for his daughter.

But in the end, you are correct – however they arrive at the correct and moral position (that gay marriage should be legal), is irrelevant.

That impression is a problem. Public officials are supposed to make real-time decisions based on real-world events. The fluid nature of world events demands that officials “change their minds”.

I’m glad that Sen. Dodd has changed his mind on this issue but, he needs to get past the feeling that changing his mind is a negative.

I am very interested to see President Obama’s reaction to this. I’ve made my peace with the fact he is NOT the progressive president I thought he’d be, but I’m desperately trying to understand WHO he is! He seems to act a lot more like a cancervative than I’m confortable with.

We’ll have to wait and see!!

Wonder who Dodd just found out (in his family) is gay?
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It doesn’t matter, really. What does matter is that Dodd has either discovered that gay people are human beings (not space aliens) and deserve the same rights other human beings do.

Harvey Milk once urged gays to come out to their family and friends, because he knew that someone with a gay family member or a gay friend would be far more likely to make the human connection than somebody who just saw them as nameless, faceless creatures they had no contact with. I believe this is true, as even Dick Cheney has refused to get on the “bash gays” bandwagon with the rest of his party on this issue.

It’s possible Dodd just discovered somebody in his family is gay. Or perhaps it’s a close friend of his. Or maybe he’s an Ellen Degeneres fan. Or maybe he’s just run out of reasons to justify keeping gays busted down to a lower class. It doesn’t really matter. What matters is that anytime old prejudices die away like scales falling from the eyes, it’s good news.