| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| we disgust me |
The Human Rights Campaign and LOGO are having a presidential debate centered around gay issues. They've invited Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. They have not invited Mike Gravel. Maybe you've heard of him. He's participated in debates for CNN and MSNBC during which he said the other candidates scared him. As an Alaskan senator in 1971, he inserted 4100 pages of the Pentagon Papers, classified documents detailing the government's dubious activities during the then-ongoing Vietnam war, into the public record by reading them aloud--4100 pages--during congressional session. The same year, he single-handedly filibustered for five months to prevent the military draft from being renewed, until President Nixon agreed to let it expire. He is also, with Dennis Kucinich, one of only two presidential candidates to fully support gay marriage, and he has promised to issue an apology to each of the more than 100,000 members of our military that has been discharged under Don't Ask, Don't Tell to date. When a gay blog invites him to make a gay club a stop on his campaign trail, he accepts. While he is unlikely to win the nomination, let alone the presidency, he is currently the only hope we have of changing the political discourse.
The HRC hasn't invited him, they say, because he hasn't reached their "funding threshold."
It was the very first gay who said, "if this is how we treat our friends, then we don't deserve to have any."
Update:
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Logo…today made additional announcements about the presidential candidate forum on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues to take place in Los Angeles on August 9. After enthusiastic community response, former Senator Mike Gravel has been invited to participate. |
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