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Pennsylvania: Lgbt

June 30, 2009 - 07:02 pm
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Eichelberger Faces His Critics

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

(H/t to Think Progress)

Here's the entire clip:

Think Progress has a transcript:SPEAKER: So are you going to apologize to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Pennsylvania — and all the people in Pennsylvania for those comments about allowing to exist and calling them dysfunctional.

EICHELBERGER: No, I think you know my answer to that. Thank you very much. And Sue Kerr gets a shout out at Think Progress:Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, an LGBT blog in Pennsylvania, writes, “It is one thing to disapprove of my identity or believe it is a choice, but quite another thing to suggest that I am permitted to exist in spite of my identity. Should I be grateful to Senator Eichelberger for not condoning someone taking away my existence?”Congratulations to Sue!

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June 30, 2009 - 06:19 am
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Obama and the LGBT Community

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

From Salon.com:
The last time the president of the United States marked gay pride month with anything official at the White House, it was June 2006. George W. Bush decided to throw the weight of his office behind a proposal to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. After all, the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance. "Our policies should aim to strengthen families, not undermine them," Bush said at the time. "And changing the definition of marriage would undermine the family structure."

On Monday, 40 years and a day after the Stonewall riots began to bring the gay rights movement into the mainstream, Barack Obama took a slightly different tack.

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