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Published Thursday, 23-Jul-2009 in issue 1126
“Given our willingness to collaborate with you, and your efforts to undercut this case, we were surprised and disappointed when we became aware of your desire to intervene. You have unrelentingly and unequivocally acted to undermine this case even before it was filed. ... (W)e will vigorously oppose any motion to intervene. In public and private, you have made it unmistakably clear that you strongly disagree with our legal strategy to challenge Prop. 8 as a violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the United States Constitution. Your strident criticism of our suit has been constant.”
Chad Griffin, board chair of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, in a July 8 letter demanding that the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights cease efforts to intervene in AFER’s federal same-sex marriage case seeking to overturn California’s Proposition 8. AFER and its clients are represented by superstar attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies.
“I do believe that in his heart he (Obama) will fight his tail off until we’ve achieved full equality in the gay community. ... I’ve been around a lot of very important politicians in my lifetime and I think this guy is different and I do trust him to do what is right. I also believe that he knows how to get things done, and that he will make a significant difference in a positive way in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans.”
Openly gay Steve Hildebrand, who was Barack Obama’s deputy national campaign director and recently spoke with the president one-on-one at the White House about gay issues, to this column, July 5.
“[Adam Lambert of “American Idol”] killed his career because now the conversation is not about his talent but about his sexual preference. He’s done. You’re forcing people to deal with issues they may not be interested in. Life is unfair, and the masses don’t all live in L.A. They live in Wisconsin and Nebraska, and you’re on crack if you think the same rules apply there. My advice is still the same, ‘Shut the fuck up, just sing and let people say whatever they want.’ But I do wish him the best because he’s got all the talent in the world. If only the world was not homophobic, but it is. I would be the first one to vote for equal rights for gay women and men, and get the church and the state to stop telling everybody how to lead their lives, but do I think he’s killed his career? Oh, in an instant. I hope I’m completely wrong. I hope he becomes the next Beatles and proves me wrong.”
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons to AOL TV, June 25.
“(W)e take it all back. I know, it’s a bit humiliating to admit, but the nation needs you, Sarah. Or, more specifically, liberals and Democrats need you, given the simply spectacular job you’ve done of helping drag the Republican party, if not further to the extremist nutball right, certainly much further down the ladder of intelligence, respect and viability, than even Bush could’ve dreamed. As long as you’re serving as the GOP’s hood ornament, and as long as Rush and O’Reilly and Glenn Beck are behind the wheel, the Republican party has not a single prayer of relevance and capability in the next two decades.”
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford writing to Sarah Palin, July 10.
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