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Published Thursday, 15-Jun-2006 in issue 964
“The Defense of Marriage Act declares that no state is required to accept another state’s definition of marriage. If that act is overturned by activist courts, then marriages recognized in one city or state might have to be recognized as marriages everywhere else. … This national question requires a national solution, and on an issue of such profound importance, that solution should come from the people, not the courts. An amendment to the Constitution is necessary because activist courts have left our nation with no other choice.”
President George W. Bush in a June 3 address to the nation.
“Today’s radio address is another example of the lengths to which President Bush will go to pander to the religious right. They demand that he speak out on the [anti-gay] Federal Marriage Amendment and, on command, he obeys. … The president’s attacks on the courts and ‘activist judges’ are not only insulting to the foundation of our republic but profoundly ironic given that they come from a man who would not be president at all but for ‘activist judges.’”
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman, June 3.
“Southern historians have long debated whether 1960s race-baiting Alabama Gov. George Wallace was truly racist, or merely a fire-breathing demagogue – a populist turned segregationist hard-liner to win the vote. The same debate might be taken up these days for George W. Bush, a man who claims to be a ‘compassionate conservative,’ but whose actions often show him as nothing of the sort.”
Editorial in New Jersey’s Herald Record daily newspaper about the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, June 4.
“A rich spoiled boy who never excelled at anything, rode on his family name, and nearly destroyed the nation.”
Rosie O’Donnell on George W. Bush, on her blog, May 19.
“It’s boring to just stand up and say ‘I’m gay.’ Who cares. …We need to get to a place where it’s just there … where an Olympic medallist can be at his news conference and thank his partner or his companion and he mentions another guy’s name. That’s what the coming out process means to me.”
Gay Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury to the Vancouver Sun, April 22.
“I’m as amazed as anyone else that people are still reading it. I think it’s got something to do with the fact that those books give people permission to live their lives the way they want, and that everyone can imagine a happy outcome if their heart is in the right place.”
Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin to London’s Pink Paper, May 18.
“No longer do we get smiling goons on billboards, talkin’ about, ‘HIV stops with me (and don’t I look great).’ …We finally get scary messages that smack negative bitches in the ass. HIV is NOT fabulous. You shit your pants, you get a bloated belly, it fucks up your face to unrecognizable proportions and you get sick. You don’t want this shit, you dumb bitch. End of discussion.”
Columnist Paulo Murillo in the Los Angeles gay newspaper FAB!, June 4.
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