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"Gay Republican" isn't an oxymoron. But being one means that sometimes, you live in a baffling world.
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Such were scenes from the Log Cabin Republicans national convention earlier this month,—held not in the GOP stronghold of Colorado Springs, but in Denver. In many ways it was a trip back in time, to the days long before the party of George W. Bush, when being Republican stood for personal responsibility, limited government — and staying out of people's bedrooms.
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Simpson also spoke with frustration about members of his own party, whose focus on Terry Schiavo and gay marriage and opposition to stem-cell research, he says, all contributed to GOP losses last November. Those fringe issues, Simpson said, "don't settle well with regular Republican or Democratic voters."
For that matter, "What the hell is [criminalizing abortion] doing in our platform?" he asked.
Though Republicans lost the majority last November, the election was actually a good thing, Simpson said, as it resulted in "shaking some of the goofies and the zanies out of the trees."
And, he noted, gays and lesbians have come light-years in terms of being accepted, just in his lifetime. Call it a "creeping maturity," he said.
He spoke of his mother, who always said that hatred corrodes the containers it comes in. And "those people," Simpson said of the religious right, are filled with gas and body odor and heartburn.
"They smell bad," he said, ultimately drawing an extended standing ovation.
Public Eye Cara DeGette Gays shake out the GOP zanies
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MONTREAL, Quebec, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the third such case to make headlines in Quebec in the last several years, a 29 year old man is being accused of assisting his chronically ill uncle to commit suicide.
Chantal Maltais was found hanging in his apartment in September of last year. Stephan Dufour, his nephew, was arrested this past week after a lengthy investigation by the police led them to the conclusion that Dufour may have helped his uncle to commit suicide.
Quebec Case of Assisted Suicide Being Used by Media to Push for Legalization of Euthanasia
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What's this, a dance troupe? Do they perform in Do-Dah Parades alongside the precision riding mower drill teams, sno-cone jugglers and Giuliani impersonators?
Terri was martyred and it didn't have to be that way.