Looking Ahead To '08

I wish I could say I'm REALLY cheesed off. But I'm not. I guess I understand the reality of things all too well to go overboard with my feelings concerning those candidates who've been put forward as Demo presidential wannabes for the '08 race. But I can say I'm not real happy about any of them so far. Why not? They're all spineless jellyfish where my rights as a citizen of this country are concerned.

Take Al Gore for example. He spoke at a dinner for the Human Rights Campaign in LA recently. Now, the HRC is decidedly pro gay marriage. Gore, trying to indirectly indicate that he supports gay marriage without actually coming out and saying it, beats around the Bush by talking about "many kinds of love" and dropping anecdotes concerning the marriages that took place in San Francisco in '04. Gore said:

"You must have the right to be who you are, just as I have the right to be who I
am. As I was on the way here, I reflected on why is there so much
controversy about the question of equality for gays and lesbians. Why? This
fight has been so long and so hard for something that is so simple and so
right. [A] future generation will look back [on this controversy] and truly
wonder how this could have happened."

You might remember that when Gore ran for the presidency in 2000, he was opposed to gay marriage but favored Vermont style civil unions. In a way, I can understand right wing Repubos who come out against gay marriage. They honestly believe homosexuals are an abomination to their god and that we can be cured of our sickness. To me, they at least, have a reason for speaking like they do about gays and lesbians and our quest to attain the right of marriage. They're not being hypocritical.

But Dems don't have that. They hem and haw and look stupid stammering on about civil unions and such while bending to the latest poll results as they dance around the issue of gay marriage. They're the hypocrites. They don't have the Bible to back up their words - only the desire to appeal to those with the power to elect them. It would be soooo refreshing to hear just one of them say that the majority isn't always right.

Hopefully by '08 someone will have the nards (naturally grown or clip on) to stand up and say that gays and lesbians are NOT an abomination and there is NO SIN in the way we love one another and that we DESERVE THE RIGHT to marry as granted to any heterosexual couple no matter how they drag the "sanctity of marriage" through the mud.

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