Friday, June 24, 2005
Good work ~~ Take Action successful
Excellent work emailers! ...Andrew Sullivan reacted to the storm around his latest essay in The Advocate and got around to linking it (with the usual backtracking they do so well on the right, of course.)
Those of us who bother to look at how HIV and AIDS affects others can easily see just how dangerous Sullivan's words are. And now he's got the gay right split over whether to support him or bail. When you're a gay Republican and BoiFromTroy bails on you it might be time to rethink your strategies.
Luckily many on the gay and lesbian right are nowhere near as naive as Andrew. It's why, over the next few months, you'll see me beginning dialogues over at PageOneQ.com. At DC's LGBT Pride, I invited a woman who is part of a queer pro-life movement to write an essay and dialogue on the matter. If you have something you'd like to say to the few thousand folks who come by the sites each day, please drop me a line. Instead of hearing dangerous rhetoric from Andrew Sullivan, I want to start real dialogues on issues of great importance.
As the right wing fights tooth and nail for the right to own AK-47's, is now the time for our people to start wondering exactly why they want them? How can the gay left reach across the aisle to the BoiFromTroys of the country to build bridges rather than blowing them up.
Andrew Sullivan is not the story here...he's like the right wingers trying to stop marriage -- he can yell and scream, but at the end of teh day, he knows his arguments hold no water. Look here and at Q for new opportunities to dialogue.
Over the weekend, I'll be replying to some of the emails and questions in an essay here. A few (ok, four) people have told me to apologize to Andrew. No dice. No one on the other hand, has told me to apologize to DC City Council woman Carol Schwartz, but that won't stop me from doing it when I see her (more on that in a day or so here too). Apologies are not to be given out when someone tells you to, they are meant to be given out when you've realized you've done something wrong. More soon...
If you're in DC, get out and enjoy the weather...It's great out!
Those of us who bother to look at how HIV and AIDS affects others can easily see just how dangerous Sullivan's words are. And now he's got the gay right split over whether to support him or bail. When you're a gay Republican and BoiFromTroy bails on you it might be time to rethink your strategies.
Luckily many on the gay and lesbian right are nowhere near as naive as Andrew. It's why, over the next few months, you'll see me beginning dialogues over at PageOneQ.com. At DC's LGBT Pride, I invited a woman who is part of a queer pro-life movement to write an essay and dialogue on the matter. If you have something you'd like to say to the few thousand folks who come by the sites each day, please drop me a line. Instead of hearing dangerous rhetoric from Andrew Sullivan, I want to start real dialogues on issues of great importance.
As the right wing fights tooth and nail for the right to own AK-47's, is now the time for our people to start wondering exactly why they want them? How can the gay left reach across the aisle to the BoiFromTroys of the country to build bridges rather than blowing them up.
Andrew Sullivan is not the story here...he's like the right wingers trying to stop marriage -- he can yell and scream, but at the end of teh day, he knows his arguments hold no water. Look here and at Q for new opportunities to dialogue.
Over the weekend, I'll be replying to some of the emails and questions in an essay here. A few (ok, four) people have told me to apologize to Andrew. No dice. No one on the other hand, has told me to apologize to DC City Council woman Carol Schwartz, but that won't stop me from doing it when I see her (more on that in a day or so here too). Apologies are not to be given out when someone tells you to, they are meant to be given out when you've realized you've done something wrong. More soon...
If you're in DC, get out and enjoy the weather...It's great out!
By: Michael Rogers
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