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Published Thursday, 05-Feb-2004 in issue 841
“What I said in 2000 was that the question of whether or not some sort of status, legal status or sanction, ought to be granted in the case of a relationship between two individuals of the same sex was historically a matter the states had decided and resolved and that is the way I preferred it. [But] at this stage, obviously, the president is going to have to make a decision in terms of what administration policy is on this particular provision, and I will support whatever decision he makes.”
Flip-flopping U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to the Denver Post, Jan. 9.
“The fact of the matter is we live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. And I think that means that people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. It’s really no one else’s business in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard. The next step, then,... is the question you ask of whether or not there ought to be some kind of official sanction, if you will, of the relationship. That matter is regulated by the states. I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that’s appropriate. I don’t think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.”
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney when asked about same-sex marriage during a year 2000 candidates’ debate.
“This drug is destroying our community. It just seems to be getting worse and worse, and no one is doing anything about it.”
New York City AIDS specialist Howard Grossman on methamphetamine (crystal meth, crank, ice, tina), to The New York Times, Jan. 11.
“As long as they don’t say I’m a pedophile I don’t care what anyone says about me.”
Boy George to London’s The Pink Paper, Jan. 9.
“All I heard was that the last thing I should do is come out. Instead, I think the interest has never been stronger. The phone definitely rings more than it ever has [with job offers].”
“Queer As Folk” actor Robert Gant (who plays Ben Bruckner) to USA Today, Jan. 13.
“Maybe he needs a new version of the Ten Commandments — George W. Bush’s Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal ... votes. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ... country. Thou shalt not kill ... for oil. Thou shalt not take grammar in vain. I mean, whatever fucking happened to separation of church and state? I mean, you can’t, like, impose your god on my god. God has many names. God is God, God is Jehovah, God is Allah, God is Buddha, God is Beyonce.... And George W. Bush is coming out with the weirdest stance on same-sex marriage as well. What he says about it is, ‘Well, we’re all sinners.’ No we’re not! Just because somebody ate an apple one time does not make us all sinners. And if it was from the tree of knowledge, I think she should have eaten more than one. Possibly even baked a pie. I don’t understand the whole same-sex marriage thing. He was quoted by saying, ‘Well, you just gotta take the speck out of your own eye before you take the cock out of your neighbor’s.’”
Comedian Margaret Cho at a Jan. 13 MoveOn.org event in New York City, according to the Drudge Report.
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