Here are the others you obviously missed: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/opinion/23presidentsspeech.html
On 1/22/11, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > No, not the main thrust. > > Goi see the complete series at this thread in The New York Times. > > Stupid that you missed all the rest with your narrow minded view. > > On 1/22/11, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Amazing. With all the problems in this country, with job losses and >> unemployment close to 10% reported and probably close to twice that in >> actuality, with deficits increasing in leaps and bounds and the rotten >> laws passed by this past congress that tripled the deficit, with the >> problems in the Obamacare that crop up on almost a daily basis, with 2 >> wars going on and our military spread all over the world (korea, >> Germany, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc), with the illegal >> immigration problems - and Tommy and Savage think the main thrust of the >> SOTU should be gay rights. OK. Got it. Just how stupid do you have to >> be to come up with this one. >> >> On 01/22/2011 10:02 PM, Tommy News wrote: >>> A Gay Agenda for Everyone >>> By DAN SAVAGE >>> >>> I’m not an idiot: Now that the Republicans hold the House, only >>> wishful thinkers and the deeply delusional expect to see any movement >>> on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legislative agenda this >>> year or next. Nevertheless, President Obama should address gay rights >>> in his State of the Union speech this week, and he should tackle the >>> biggest, most meaningful right of them all: the right to marry. >>> >>> When he was a candidate for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, Mr. >>> Obama told a gay publication that he supported “legalizing same-sex >>> marriages.” Twelve years later, right about the time he decided to run >>> for president, he came out against marriage equality. But, as the >>> president likes to say, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it >>> bends toward justice.” Where a Gallup poll in 1996 found that just 27 >>> percent of the nation supported equal marriage rights for same-sex >>> couples, a CNN poll last summer found that a majority now supports >>> marriage equality. >>> >>> The president — perhaps after introducing Daniel Hernandez Jr., the >>> openly gay intern credited with saving Representative Gabrielle >>> Giffords’s life — should declare that the trend is clear: this country >>> increasingly believes that Mr. Hernandez and other lesbian, gay, >>> bisexual and transgender Americans should have all the same rights and >>> responsibilities as other citizens. >>> >>> Gay Americans are eventually going to win on marriage just like we won >>> on military service, the president should tell Congress, so why not >>> save everyone on both sides of the debate a lot of time, trouble and >>> money by approving the entire gay rights agenda? Send the Employment >>> Non-Discrimination Act, the Student Non-Discrimination Act, the >>> Uniting American Families Act and the repeal of the odious Defense of >>> Marriage Act to his desk for his signature. >>> >>> He can assure the lawmakers that, yes, there’s something in it for >>> Americans who disapprove of homosexuality too. >>> >>> Social conservatives long to raise their children in a country where >>> they don’t have to hear about homosexuality every time they turn on >>> the news. I’d like raise my son in a country like that too. And guess >>> what? In countries like Canada — where the fight over gay rights is >>> essentially over, where there is gay marriage, open military service >>> and employment protections — homosexuality hardly ever makes the front >>> pages of newspapers. There’s nothing much to report. >>> >>> Conservatives can’t get rid of us, but they can hear less from and >>> about us. They just have to bend toward justice. >>> >>> More: >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/opinion/23savage.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. >> * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > -- Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. Have a great day, Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
