Sadly, Pete Buttigieg has dropped out of the race. I wasn't going to vote for him due to his lack of national political experience, but at the very least he raised the notion among Americans that we could have a gay man as president.
Being gay shouldn't be a checkbox for voters to look at. Qualifications matter.
But then ... that bigot Trump goes and spoils things again - and appoints Richard Grenell as the acting DNI. First cabinet post ever to an openly gay person. Gay and qualified! Damn Trump!
"Grenell â who is openly gay and announced last year that he would lead a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality â was appointed in 2001 as U.N. spokesman by President George W. Bush and held the position for the next seven years, serving four ambassadors."
What's that? W appointed a gay guy too? Impossible!
"Being gay shouldn't be a checkbox for voters to look at. Qualifications matter."
Agreed, but some Americans will still reject a qualified gay person solely because of his/her sexual identity.
As for Grenell...good for Trump that he apparently didn't have a problem with Grenell's sexual orientation. But from what I've read, Grenell is not qualified.
Sadly, Pete Buttigieg has dropped out of the race. I wasn't going to vote for him due to his lack of national political experience, but at the very least he raised the notion among Americans that we could have a gay man as president.
Being gay shouldn't be a checkbox for voters to look at. Qualifications matter.
But then ... that bigot Trump goes and spoils things again - and appoints Richard Grenell as the acting DNI. First cabinet post ever to an openly gay person. Gay and qualified! Damn Trump!
"Grenell â who is openly gay and announced last year that he would lead a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality â was appointed in 2001 as U.N. spokesman by President George W. Bush and held the position for the next seven years, serving four ambassadors."
Sadly, Pete Buttigieg has dropped out of the race. I wasn't going to vote for him due to his lack of national political experience, but at the very least he raised the notion among Americans that we could have a gay man as president.
My wife just got home from from playing at a funeral.
The funeral was in a small town in eastern Montana, for friend of a friend. The friend (our friend) met the deceased while they worked at a hospital in the big city (Great Falls), thru the deceased's partner.
The lady whose funeral this was was a lesbian. Also a pediatric nurse, a mom, and a Lt. Colonel in the Army reserves. Posted all over the world in MASH units. The partner split when her kids (the partner's) told her they had had it with this lesbian thing and wanted her to be in a relationship they could be proud of. So her family was down to her one surviving daughter (also a lesbian, also a mom) and her (the deceased's) ex-husband (father of her kids) who was apparently kinda surly but showed up.
When she was dying and decided she wanted to be buried in the family plot in her home town, so that's where they held the funeralâin a Catholic church in a small town in eastern Montana headed by a priest from India. Maybe 10 locals there, the rest (maybe 60 or so) from Great Falls and the rest of the world. Plus the Army color guard.
Full military ceremony, folded flag and 21 gun salute and everything.
It's the early part of the 21st century. It's complicated. But it's getting better. Rest in peace, Colonel.
Yep, I have always been bemused at how mortal enemies such as fundamental Muslims and Christians are really just mirror images of one another and do not seem to recognize this and irritated by so called "progressives" who support the intolerance of Muslims whilst simultaneously condemning the intolerance of the Christians.
well tolerance (respect for human rights) is increasing all the way around
i guess we could call it modernity or enlightenment creeping in and dislodging dogmas
there are some very thoughtful answers in this video
it's the fact that more people are rejecting reactionary violence and opening up to dialog regarding personal sexual preferences and beliefs systems (or lack of) that i find encouraging
LGBT lessons row: More Birmingham schools stop classes
By Sima KotechaMidlands correspondent, BBC News
19 March 2019
Yep, I have always been bemused at how mortal enemies such as fundamental Muslims and Christians are really just mirror images of one another and do not seem to recognize this and irritated by so called "progressives" who support the intolerance of Muslims whilst simultaneously condemning the intolerance of the Christians.
