Sunday, September 2, 2007

Larry Craig: I'm Not Gay, by Avenue Q

Okay, it never takes too long for at-home video editors to put together something outragiously funny and, oh, so timely. Avenue Q's wonderful puppetry and Senator Larry Craig, performing "If You were gay."

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Mitt Romney: Gay Marriage, Abortion, and State's Power

It's happening, slowly, two steps forward and one step back, but same sex couples are gaining their equality with their married straight peers. The recent Iowan court decision produced 65 pages explaining why denying same sex couples marriage is unconstitutional.

Already, the right-wing bigots are getting their statements out, and GOP gay-hater Mitt Romney was the first, wasting no time by saying, "The ruling is Iowa today is another example of an activist court and unelected judges trying to define marriage and disregard the will of the people as expressed through Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act. This once again highlights the need for a Federal Marriage Amendment to protect the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman."
Romney's claim for the need for a Federal Marriage Amendment shows he's treading in the footsteps of the current president's last campaign, where this issue was used to divert attention away from more important issues like war, poverty, children being left behind, and other policy failures.

Romney's trying to cover his ass on the abortion issue (once for it, now against it), and he can't seem to get his story straight, as it were when it comes to individual State's powers. A couple of weeks ago he said that as president he would allow individual states to keep abortion legal, two weeks after telling a national television audience that he supports a constitutional amendment to ban the procedure nationwide.


So, Mitt, baby, what's it going to be, either you give the States the power to oversee their reproductive laws AND you give them the power to oversee their marriage laws, or you try to pass an, unlikely, amendment to ban gay marriage and abortion. However, you can't have it both ways. Leave the abortion/gay marriage debates to the states.