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Mar. 26th, 2004 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangofandangoThere is a GLBTQQI conference going on at URI this weekend. David Cicilline (the openly-gay mayor of Providence) spoke last night to kick it off, and I'm reading a story about it. He says:
"It's easy to demonize someone you've never met. It's harder to do that to your neighbor. Just look at Vice President Dick Cheney squirm when supporting writing discrimination into our nation's Constitution, betraying millions of Americans including his own daughter," (referring to the Bush administration's support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and woman.)"
Dick Cheney's daughter is gay? I think I've heard this before, but apparently I forgot. That must make for some interesting family dynamics. The poor woman.
He also says that "[Granting marriage to same-sex couples] does not undermine marriage, it affirms it," he said. "[Also], unless you believe in stoning people...relying on Biblical passages to discriminate is just plain wrong."
Maybe he will start allowing gay marriages in Providence. That would rock my socks. :)
"It's easy to demonize someone you've never met. It's harder to do that to your neighbor. Just look at Vice President Dick Cheney squirm when supporting writing discrimination into our nation's Constitution, betraying millions of Americans including his own daughter," (referring to the Bush administration's support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and woman.)"
Dick Cheney's daughter is gay? I think I've heard this before, but apparently I forgot. That must make for some interesting family dynamics. The poor woman.
He also says that "[Granting marriage to same-sex couples] does not undermine marriage, it affirms it," he said. "[Also], unless you believe in stoning people...relying on Biblical passages to discriminate is just plain wrong."
Maybe he will start allowing gay marriages in Providence. That would rock my socks. :)
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Date: 2004-03-27 09:24 am (UTC)I'd say being Cheney's daughter, the poor woman, even if she weren't a lesbian. Imagine being Darth Vader's daughter. :-)
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Date: 2004-03-27 10:25 am (UTC)