My god, I agree with Andrew Sullivan (help me!)

[northzax]

From his blog (www.andrewsullivan.com) today:

NO MORE PROFOUND AN ATTACK: This president wants our families denied civil protection and civil acknowledgment. He wants us stigmatized not just by a law, not just by his inability even to call us by name, not by his minions on the religious right. He wants us stigmatized in the very founding document of America. There can be no more profound attack on a minority in the United States - or on the promise of freedom that America represents. That very tactic is so shocking in its prejudice, so clear in its intent, so extreme in its implications that it leaves people of good will little lee-way. This president has now made the Republican party an emblem of exclusion and division and intolerance. Gay people will now regard it as their enemy for generations - and rightly so. I knew this was coming, but the way in which it has been delivered and the actual fact of its occurrence is so deeply depressing it is still hard to absorb. But the result is clear, at least for those who care about the Constitution and care about civil rights. We must oppose this extremism with everything we can muster. We must appeal to the fair-minded center of the country that balks at the hatred and fear that much of the religious right feeds on. We must prevent this graffiti from being written on a document every person in this country should be able to regard as their own. This struggle is hard but it is also easy. The president has made it easy. He's a simple man and he divides the world into friends and foes. He has now made a whole group of Americans - and their families and their friends - his enemy. We have no alternative but to defend ourselves and our families from this attack. And we will.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Oh my goodness...Andy said something I agree with!

:o

[Fight_n_back]

2. Ive found myself agreeing with all kinds of people I don't usually

Andrew Sullivan
Pat Buchanon
Bob Barr

Maybe Bush really IS a uniter!

[Sagan]

3. Yes, Sully's got his knickers in a twist. However...

The issue remains:

What is Sully and the Log Cabin Whackos going to DO about it? Are they going to piss and moan and then vote Republican like they always do?

It's a case of electoral battered-spouse syndrome.

[proud patriot]

5. Exactly !

:thumbsup:

[skypilot]

6. A-f*cking-MEN!!!

It's amazing that we have to get to a point as extreme as this before these gay righwingers stop and realized that "Oh shit, they don't like us. They really, really don't like us". Dickheads. Wake up!!

[orwell]

4. Awoman

Welcome to the light brother.

Can I get an Amen!

uh Awoman...

O

[Coventina]

7. He's realized that the Religious Right are firing up the ovens

and he doesn't want to be fed into them wearing his state-mandated pink triangle.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. When it comes down to it.

It won't make a difference. These assholes are greedy as hell and a lot of them with their own prejudices feel at home with the repugs.

[northzax]

9. ahh, but while the fig leaf

of Republicans not being anti-gay was in place, people could vote for what they perceived as their economic interests first. this action removes that freedom, now gay and lesbians are forced to choose against thier own social interests if they vote republican. It will hurt.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Let's hope so, but never misunderestimate people's stupidity.

[adriennel]

11. He's gay, right?

Is this the same guy that was on Bill Maher's show this season?

[LiviaOlivia]

12. Yes he was on Maher 2 or 3 weeks ago.