Posted on 07/10/2008 12:34:19 PM PDT by bs9021
Gay Activists Ascendant
by: Audra Taylor, July 10, 2008
Anticipating unprecedented victories in the United States, gay rights groups in America are raising their profile at home and abroad. “It’s a really exciting time to be an LGBT American,” Rob Anderson, who edits the web site for Campus Progress, said at the group’s fourth annual national conference last week.
The progressive student organization held its annual meeting at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The panel was entitled, “Is LGBT Activism Obsolete?: Assessing the goals and methods of the LGBT movement,” and offered a particularly notable presentation. The panel of four LGBT experts suggested that the LBGT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transsexual) movement has made vast progress during the last decade as society has become more accepting of their lifestyles.
First to speak was Richard Kim Associate Editor for The Nation, a weekly publication covering politics and culture often described as “the flagship of the left.”
“As an activist, I want to put my energy in perceptual rights,” Kim said. He referred to a situation that occurred last month in Uganda, during which several gay protestors were arrested for demanding the right to AIDS/HIV treatment at an international AIDS conference. In Uganda, engaging in homosexual acts can even result in life-long imprisonment.
Such is certainly not the case in the United States, as gay marriages were legalized in California just last month. As a social issue, issues like gay rights are often associated with the left-wing political agenda. James Kirchick, Assistant Editor of The New Republic, believes that the issue should be above the initiatives of both parties....
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Hooray for destroying the basis of a civilized society.
Well, whether they like it or not, the gay activist agenda is associated with left wing politics. And a key reason is — conservatives prefer the status quo. Conservatives don’t want gay marriage or LBGT rights to AIDS drugs pushed on society. So by definition, the liberals have to be the ones to push for it.
Gee, Uganda sure isn’t very tolerant of gay lifestyles is it? The activists should go there and educate them.
Some of these poor SSAD individuals don't even realize they're being used as pawns to destroy society,
but some of them know that that's exactly what they are doing.
But not rampant, we hope.
(Okay, that's a stretch...)
Perceptual rights?
Are those the ones in the Constitution that you need the special X-Ray goggles to see?
Hey, how about a warning first?
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