gay-baiting NOT
Kerry was not gay-baiting.
my favorite thing about the final debate for prez was when kerry mentioned cheney's daughter's sexual preference. any gay person with any self-awareness would applaud kerry's statement to bush.
this was not an attack on gays, lesbians, or any sexual orientation. it was merely kerry lighting the fuse for the detonation of the implosion of the republican party. and it is working. they are self-destructing.
the republican party is imploding over the fact that cheney's daughter is lesbian. they've denied and hidden the fact over the past four years because they are so ashamed. but now the secret is out and they can't deny it any longer. besides, it was cheney, a few weeks ago, who first mentioned it.
now, kerry has turned the republicans' "biblical shame" into an inner fight amongst each other that is destroying the republican party from the inside out. it was genius on kerry's part, and i'm happy to be one of the sexual deviants who buries them after they completely expire.
i'm proud of cheney's daughter, and every other gay and lesbian in this country who refuses to let the rest of the world beat them down with biblical bs and right wing stupidity.
Timothy Noah writes in "Chatterbox" for Slate. he further explains:
"I won't dispute that Kerry was using Mary Cheney to score a political point. But the political point was an entirely legitimate one, aimed, I believe, not at fundamentalists but at swing voters with libertarian leanings. Listen, Kerry was saying. This guy [Bush] knows gay people, just like you and I do. So he must know that homosexuality isn't a "lifestyle choice." He must know that, and yet he pretends not to know it to score points with the religious right. How cynical can you get? And then he lends his support to a cockamamie Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage that even his right-wing-nut of a vice president can't stomach because his own daughter is gay. But even Cheney won't really speak out against this administration's exploitation of the gay-marriage issue to score cheap political points. Some father he is."
Noah continues, "We can argue about whether Kerry's posture of moral superiority on this issue is entirely earned.
After all, he, too, claims to oppose gay marriage (because "marriage is between a man and a woman," an argument whose essence is "because I say so"). But Kerry's record is more tolerant than his campaign rhetoric suggests, and even his campaign rhetoric is more tolerant than Bush's. Kerry wants to make that a reason for swing voters who deplore bigotry to vote for him. I think that's what made Lynne Cheney spitting mad--she resents the implication that the Bush-Cheney campaign sold out her own gay daughter. But you know what? It did. And you know what else? The evidence that Kerry would treat gays with greater tolerance than Bush is a pretty good reason to vote for Kerry."
Timothy Noah writes in "Chatterbox" for Slate.
my favorite thing about the final debate for prez was when kerry mentioned cheney's daughter's sexual preference. any gay person with any self-awareness would applaud kerry's statement to bush.
this was not an attack on gays, lesbians, or any sexual orientation. it was merely kerry lighting the fuse for the detonation of the implosion of the republican party. and it is working. they are self-destructing.
the republican party is imploding over the fact that cheney's daughter is lesbian. they've denied and hidden the fact over the past four years because they are so ashamed. but now the secret is out and they can't deny it any longer. besides, it was cheney, a few weeks ago, who first mentioned it.
now, kerry has turned the republicans' "biblical shame" into an inner fight amongst each other that is destroying the republican party from the inside out. it was genius on kerry's part, and i'm happy to be one of the sexual deviants who buries them after they completely expire.
i'm proud of cheney's daughter, and every other gay and lesbian in this country who refuses to let the rest of the world beat them down with biblical bs and right wing stupidity.
Timothy Noah writes in "Chatterbox" for Slate. he further explains:
"I won't dispute that Kerry was using Mary Cheney to score a political point. But the political point was an entirely legitimate one, aimed, I believe, not at fundamentalists but at swing voters with libertarian leanings. Listen, Kerry was saying. This guy [Bush] knows gay people, just like you and I do. So he must know that homosexuality isn't a "lifestyle choice." He must know that, and yet he pretends not to know it to score points with the religious right. How cynical can you get? And then he lends his support to a cockamamie Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage that even his right-wing-nut of a vice president can't stomach because his own daughter is gay. But even Cheney won't really speak out against this administration's exploitation of the gay-marriage issue to score cheap political points. Some father he is."
Noah continues, "We can argue about whether Kerry's posture of moral superiority on this issue is entirely earned.
After all, he, too, claims to oppose gay marriage (because "marriage is between a man and a woman," an argument whose essence is "because I say so"). But Kerry's record is more tolerant than his campaign rhetoric suggests, and even his campaign rhetoric is more tolerant than Bush's. Kerry wants to make that a reason for swing voters who deplore bigotry to vote for him. I think that's what made Lynne Cheney spitting mad--she resents the implication that the Bush-Cheney campaign sold out her own gay daughter. But you know what? It did. And you know what else? The evidence that Kerry would treat gays with greater tolerance than Bush is a pretty good reason to vote for Kerry."
Timothy Noah writes in "Chatterbox" for Slate.
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