Posted on 06/22/2007 7:49:14 AM PDT by SmithL
Elizabeth Edwards' scheduled appearance Sunday at a major San Francisco Gay Pride event represents a first for a major presidential candidate or spouse -- one that activists said reflects the growing clout of gay and lesbians as voters and their continued move into the political mainstream.
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, is scheduled to speak Sunday morning at the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Democratic Club breakfast at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Organizers say it marks the highest level of presidential campaigning at the annual Gay Pride Parade.
"It certainly is another barrier falling,'' said author and gay activist David Mixner, a Clinton administration adviser who backs Edwards in the 2008 race.
"There's been a taboo on any (candidate)-related Gay Pride events,'' he said, with major presidential hopefuls steering away because the event has been viewed largely in the mainstream media as a no-holds-barred celebration of the gay lifestyle.
But Mixner -- whom Newsweek once called "the most powerful gay man in America'' -- said Democratic politicians particularly are realizing that "just like straights at Mardi Gras, there's a wide range of different events, from picnics and political clubs to the parade,'' many of them family-oriented and many stocked with potential voters.
"The myth of what Pride is will be exploded ... and that taboo will now be removed,'' he said. "And I can't think of a better person to do it than Elizabeth Edwards. She won't let people tell her where she can go and who she can talk to.''
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Am I the only one disturbed by spending her remaining months going around the country shilling for that fraud instead spending the time with her family.
Two Americas - Heterosexual and Not.
Topic: “Great hair styling tips from my husband”
Well, she did marry a faggot.
“Straights at Mardi Gras”? They’re perverts too.
“Am I the only one disturbed by spending her remaining months going around the country shilling for that fraud instead spending the time with her family.”
No. I’m aghast at her lifting up temporal values and perversion. I can hardly believe she and her husband claim to be Christians. Endorsing evil is not the kind of legacy I’d want as death is over coming me.
He can get 110% of the fag vote and it still won’t get him into the White House.
It is the smart move. Your husband is running for the nomination of the Democratic Party. You need to campaign efficiently, sodomites are angry and they turn out to vote even in primaries. Her husband may or may not be what Ann Coulter called him but five hundred dollars haircuts indicates that he works hard to maintain a certain appearance and his obvious sexual ambiguity.
No you are not.....Her kids have and anbsentee father and a mom battling cancer
You know a while ago I would have been incensed... but since the day Condi Rice referred to the mother of a gay man’s partner as his mother in law: ...
—————————————————————————————————Gay Marriage at the State Department
What happened was that Rice formally announced the appointment of Mark Dybul as the nation’s global AIDS ambassador. Dybul is a homosexual man. He was accompanied to the announcement by his homosexual male partner, Jason Claire, who held the Bible for his swearing-in.
Some of you are thoroughly offended already, I’m sure, at the very idea of a gay man swearing on the Bible while his same-sex consort holds that Bible.
Stay seated. You haven’t heard anything yet.
In her remarks, Condi Rice said, and I quote: “Thank you. Thank you very much. I am truly honored and delighted to have the opportunity to swear in Mark Dybul as our next Global AIDS Coordinator. I am pleased to do that in the presence of Mark’s parents, Claire and Richard; his partner, Jason, and his mother-in-law, Marilyn. You have a wonderful family to support you, Mark, and I know that’s always important to us. Welcome.”
I direct your attention to the reference to “mother-in-law.”
Your mother-in-law is the mother of your spouse. So, no less than our secretary of state, fourth in the line of succession to the presidency, our very emissary to the world, essentially declared Dybul’s male homosexual partner his spouse.
This wasn’t a liberal Democratic judge in San Francisco or Massachusetts. This was an eminent Bush appointee. And she did it right there in Foggy Bottom, a famously public place in southwestern D.C., with Laura Bush standing by in powerfully passive acquiescence.
This was not far at all from George W.’s White House, where Rice is ever-welcome and highly regarded. Laura, too.
Then Condi flew off to the Far East to try to straighten out that nuclear mess.
Talk about mixed emotions. You don’t know which to do first. You could rise in praise of Condi’s tolerance and enlightenment. Or you could rise to deplore the Bush administration’s breathtaking cynicism and hypocrisy.
Bush and the Republicans rail against the menace of gay marriage to drum up votes from Christian conservatives. Then the president’s closest foreign policy adviser publicly declares that a gay man’s partner’s mother is the gay man’s mother-in-law. And the president’s wife just stands there like a knot on a log.
The cynical exploitation by Republicans of Christian conservatives - and this gulf between what leading Republicans say and do - began sometime between Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Goldwater had no religious element in his insufficient conservative base in 1964, and, truth be known, the charmingly irascible libertarian wouldn’t have stood for one. He thought religion ought to be over here and government over there. But conservative leaders realized after Goldwater’s drubbing that they needed the religious element to compete.
So, they propped up the pliable Reagan at evangelical religious gatherings to sit with a Hollywood-trained smile as bellowers like James Robison spewed venom about how the “perverts” were going to take over the country unless good Christian men like this Ronald Reagan here got elected.
It’s been a tale of deceit ever since. A new book by a former White House aide says Karl Rove would pat evangelical leaders on the back, then laugh at them and call them nuts after they left.
Again, you don’t know which to do first, applaud Rove’s good judgment or deplore his cynicism.
Dick Cheney’s family alone - with the vice president’s lesbian adult daughter - is a case study of the hollowness of leading Republicans’ vile and cynically manipulative public rhetoric and the compassion and tolerance of their real private lives.
By John Brummett
Washington is run by hypocrites
This would be an excellent time for Lizzy to put up her children for adoption. Pray an announcement is coming for just such an act of tolerance.
And this is a good thing!
Can we please drop the “gay”, and call it what it is? It’s homosexuality, a behavioral abnormality.
When he walked to stand near her, she moved away from him....that said it all. I do not think he is a nice man to his family....that, of course is IMO
They are sodomites practicing sodomy and abomination. I am not afraid to call a spade a spade.
Poor you Elizabeth....eaten up with cancer, husband who is prettier than you and better hair and now you sign on to legitimize sexual perversions. You may be a wealthy influential woman but you are a prisoner bound with invisible chains.
Her eyebrows tell it all. She is faking.
No really, I feel sorry for her that she did not get her husband to drop out, really take care of her and relax during the time she has left.
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