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Know your enemies by their words!

For an exercise, boys and girls, contrast these inspiring, loving words with those uttered by, for example, Maya Angelou, who manages to uplift herself and the world without resorting to downtrodding anyone who isn't like her. For extra credit, see if you can determine who has more grace, courtesy, self-confidence, and christian qualities in their heart, Charlton Heston or Maya Angelou?

Maya Angelou, GALA Festival V, Opening Ceremonies. 7/7/1996 Tampa FL

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up -- lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

U.S. Representative Barney Frank on the full-page ads in national papers featuring "ex-gays" who claim to have turned straight with Jesus' help, San Francisco Examiner, July 17, 1998

Being Jewish, would I have to go through a 24-step program instead of a 12-step program?

U.S. Representative Barney Frank, D-Mass., on anti-gay activists, to the San Francisco Examiner, July 17, 1998

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality. Do I hire Don King?

Tracy Baim, editor of Chicago's Nightlines, in her July 15, 1998 "Off the Cuffs" column

Even the founders of these ex-gay ministries aren't 'cured' of anything, and often go right back to being gay. Ultimately, these groups have no interest in loving gays--they just want to exploit the hatred of homosexuals through fundraising. We are the modern- day 'red scare,' and the easiest buck in town.

New York Times columnist Frank Rich, July 22, 1998

Homosexuality is not a disease and needs no 'cure.' For all the tough-love sentiments, the real agenda of this $200,000 Christian Coalition-Family Research Council media blitz is not to heal but to divide Americans for political advantage. By pushing the false premise that homosexuality is not an innate human condition but a sinful choice that can be reversed through prayer and counseling, the ad's sponsors are putting it in the same category as kleptomania and alcoholism, much as did Senator Lott (whose name is invoked in the ads).

Newark, N.J., Episcopalian Bishop Jack Spong at the once-a-decade gathering of Anglican Bishops in Canterbury, England, July 20, 1998

Treating gay and lesbian people as if they are sub-human is a violation of the gospel. It is a dagger aimed at the heart of the gospel. We would have the church bless and the state recognize faithful, committed lifetime gay and lesbian relationships. Unless the church blesses gay and lesbian relationships and encourages them to be faithful, the church will encourage them to become promiscuous because that is the only alternative...

The Anglican communion has had gay archbishops, gay bishops and gay priests since the dawn of time. The only difference is that we are now being honest about it. I have got 30 out-of-the-closet gay and lesbian priests in my diocese, which is a minuscule one...

The use of the term 'practicing homosexual' is pejorative. That is almost as bad as using the 'N' word to describe colored people. Christian groups have insulted gays so often and for so many years with such negativity that my only hope is that we don't issue an insulting statement about gays at this conference. . . . It is a justice issue that is just as compelling as being opposed to apartheid in South Africa or to genocide In Rwanda.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Rep. Pat Schroeder (voting against DOMA, let's keep this woman in office!)

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'With liberty and just for ALL.' What part of ALL do you not understand?

Disney Corporation's Statement regarding Southern Baptist Convention's Proposed Boycott of their parks, June 11, 1996

We find it curious that a group that claims to espouse family values would vote to boycott the world's largest producer of wholesome family entertainment.

We question any group that demands that we deprive people of health benefits and we know of no tourist destination in the world that denies admission to people as the Baptists are insisting we do.

Robin Williams

If it's between The Birdcage and The Texas Chainsaw Circumcision, go see us. People have no doubts about taking a 12-year-old to see a PG-13 movie... with heavy-duty disemboweling, but you mention this movie and they say: 'Are they homosexual? Oh, good God. I'll see zombies, but I will not take my kid to see drag queens, damn it!'

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

...pressures from the more extreme religious activists have pushed almost every [Presidential] candidate to demagoguery, emphasizing vicious attacks on gay men and women ostensibly based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. An even more disquieting claim is that AIDS is God's punishment on someone who has sinned and that the sufferers should be treated accordingly. ... Other Christians and the general public must not condone, even by silence, these obnoxious attitudes, increasingly promoted among a few demagogic religious and political leaders. In addition to the direct punishment of many American citizens, undisputed acceptance of a premise that originates within the religious community tends to authenticate it among those who have their own personal prejudices. We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

President Bill Clinton, Advocate Interview, June 25th issue

I don't think it's right for employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation. Men and women in 41 states may now be fired from their jobs solely because of their sexual orientation, even though it has no bearing on their job performance. Those who face this kind of job discrimination have no legal recourse in either our state or our federal courts. This is wrong. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act [ENDA, pending in Congress], for which I announced my support last fall, is designed to protect the rights of all Americans to participate in the job market without fear of unfair discrimination.

Iowa Rep. Ed Fallon, to the Iowa House 2/20/96

Ladies and gentlemen of the House, I have anguished over this bill, not because there is any doubt in my mind as to how I should vote, but because I believe strongly that what we are dealing with here is the defining civil rights issue of this decade. Historically, this issue may prove to be the most significant matter we deal with this year, and so I would respectfully ask the body's indulgence and attention during this debate.

My remarks are directed both toward those who sincerely believe that this bill is good and just and to those who know in their hearts and consciences that this bill is wrong, but in fear of public opinion and of how this issue will be used in campaigns next fall, they are inclined to vote in favor of its passage.

Back in the 1950s, many, many Americans were victimized by relentless, fear-driven red-baiting. There was a Bolshevik lurking in every bathroom, and you never knew but your neighbor or even your uncle might turn out to be a communist.

In the 1990s, red-baiting is out. But pink-baiting is in. Gay-bashing, generally thought of as a Friday night frolic for inebriated thugs, has its parallel expressions in voting booths, city council halls, and legislative chambers across this country. Today we are witnessing one of those expressions in the form of this bill. By singling out gay and lesbian marriages as a union unacceptable in the eyes of the law, we fuel the fires of ignorance, intolerance, and hatred.

And if anyone here thinks that the positions we embrace, the laws we enact do not affect the mood of the public, then you have a very low, and I believe, a very inaccurate view of the powerful influence we here in this body exert over the formation of public opinion. The message we're sending today is that it's OK to discriminate against people of a different sexual orientation, even though for the most part, that's the way they were born and there's nothing they can do to change it. And for those who would argue that homosexuality is a choice, I ask you: do you really believe that anyone in their right mind would voluntarily choose to be in a class of people who are constantly made fun of, despised, beaten up and even killed, discriminated against, fired from their jobs, denied housing, and prevented from marrying?

For gay and lesbian people, this array of abuse is par for the course. If you believe that homosexuality is a personal choice, then you have not tried very hard to see this issue from a gay or lesbian person's point of view.

Well, I suppose this is as good a time as any for me to come out of the closet. I can't help the way I was born. It's just who I am. I've never announced this to a group publicly, but I guess it's about time. I am heterosexual. I am absolutely certain in my entire being that I could never be homosexual, no matter how hard I might try. I've never been attracted to another man in my life, and the idea of engaging in a homosexual act is foreign and distasteful to me. But just as I would hope that homosexual men and women could accept me for who I am, I promise to try to accept them for who they are. Why can't you do the same? Why can't we all do the same?

Hatred grows out of fear, and fear grows out of ignorance. Though I've never hated homosexuals, I used to fear them. When I was a kid growing up, the worst name you could call someone was a gay loser. And the stereotype that still pervades the minds of many in this chamber -- that of the highly aggressive, promiscuous gay man seeking countless, anonymous relationships -- is the stereotype that I grew up with, and the stereotype that contributes to volumes of ignorance and volumes of fear.

Over time, I've come to learn that this stereotype, like most stereotypes, is based on hearsay, not fact. The rogues who may fit the previous description are the exception to the rule, just as there are male heterosexual rogues who are aggressive, promiscuous, and constantly hitting on and harassing women.

In my evolving experience with homosexuals, familiarity has displaced ignorance and dispelled fear. I now count as friends and constituents many same-sex couples. Some have children. Most are in long-term, stable relationships. All are very decent, kind and normal people. I make no effort to judge the integrity of what they do in their bedroom, and to their credit, they've never judged the integrity of what I do in mine.

One lesbian couple I count as friends have two children the same age as my son and daughter. They attend the same elementary school as my children.

They play together. They go to the same birthday parties. They swap overnights. These two children are healthy, bright, and courteous, and their parents probably do a better job of parenting than I do.

Though you may have personal, religious reasons why this arrangement seems distasteful to you, there is absolutely no way you could rationally argue that this is not a stable happy, healthy family. In a pluralistic society that allegedly values the separation of church and state, why can we not simply live and let live? Accept the reality that this couple's religious beliefs on homosexuality are different than yours. Just leave religion out of it, as our founding fathers and mothers saw fit. If the fruit which falls from the tree is good, the tree must also be good.

Indeed, there are many religious groups that openly and lovingly celebrate unions between same-sex couples. For example, Methodists, the United Church of Christ, Congregationalists, Reform Jews, the Metropolitan Community Church, Unitarian Universalists and Quakers.

There is no shortage of gay or lesbian couples that value and revere marriage. In fact, just last fall I attended the wedding of two women. Their son was present. The wedding was held in a local church. It was conducted by two ministers. And there were 150 family members and friends of the happy couple there to celebrate with them.

Yet, we're told by the bill's supporters that we need legislation to protect ourselves from this kind of marriage? No, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a marriage-protection bill. It is emphatically an anti-marriage bill.

This rhetoric used by supporters of HF 2183 may be slick but it is grossly inaccurate. What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from?

There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike or Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

Marriage licenses aren't distributed on a first-come, first-served basis here in Iowa. Heterosexual couples don't have to rush out and claim marriage licenses now, before they are all snatched up by gay and lesbian couples.

Heterosexual unions are and will continue to be predominant, regardless of what gay and lesbian couples do. To suggest that homosexual couples in any way, shape or form threaten to undermine the stability of heterosexual unions is patently absurd.

And I know, you'll say: "What about the gay agenda?" Well, just as there turned out to be no Bolsheviks in the bathroom back in the 1950s, there is no gay-agenda in the 1990s. There is, however, a strong, well-funded anti-gay agenda, and we have an example of its efforts here before us today.

All that gay and lesbian people are asking for is, if not understanding, then at least tolerance. All they are asking for is the same basic civil equality that all Americans yearn for and should be entitled to.

To those in this body who know in their hearts and consciences that this bill is wrong, yet are afraid to vote against it, I ask you to consider the powerful message this bill sends to the people of Iowa. It sends the message that discrimination against gays and lesbians is acceptable and officially sanctioned. It sends the message that it's OK to deny civil and equal rights to some minority groups in our society. It sends the message that the gift of marriage is good for some yet forbidden to others. And for those in my own party who plan to vote for this bill, it sends the message that Democrats, who have traditionally stood up for and protected everyone's civil rights, aren't willing to do so in the case of homosexuals.

If you are weighing the political consequences of opposing this bill and find they are too heavy, I'd like you to think about the great moral changes that have occurred in this country over the past 200 years. Ask yourself when you would have felt safe to speak in favor of the separation of the colonies from Great Britain? When would you have taken a public stand for the abolition of slavery? When would you have spoken in favor of women's suffrage? In the 1960s, when would you have joined Martin Luther King and others in calling for equal rights for African Americans? When would you have spoken out against restrictive marriage laws banning inter-racial marriages?

While the choice before us today -- between a green button or a red one -- is a difficult one to make, it is nowhere near as difficult or dangerous as the choices faced by the many freedom fighters who came before us.

We're elected not to follow but to lead. We're elected to cast what might sometimes be a difficult, challenging, and politically inexpedient vote.

We're elected to represent our constituents when they're right, and to vote our consciences regardless of whether our constituents are right. And our conscience should be telling us to stand up for civil rights regardless of how unpopular it may appear.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Such a time is now. With your no vote on this bill, you can help break the silence and stand with those who have no one to stand with them. Thank you.

(Ed Fallon may be reached at efallon@house.legis.state.ia.us)

U.S. Supreme Court on Colorado Amendment 2 overturn

We find nothing special in the protections Amendment 2 withholds. These are protections taken for granted by most people either because they already have them or do not need them; these are protections against exclusion from an almost limitless number of transactions and endeavors that constitute ordinary civic life in a free society.

U.S. Supreme Court on Colorado Amendment 2 overturn

...if the Constitution's guarantee of 'equal protection of the laws' means anything, it must at the very least mean that a bare... desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot constitute a legitimate government interest...

Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end, but to make them unequal to everyone else. This Colorado cannot do.

Rep. Gerry Studds, 04/25/1993, March on Washington

And don't give us that tired old mantra about discipline, good order, and morale. ...We acknowledge the need for discipline and good order, and we have read the Navy's report on Tailhook: and we have concluded nonetheless that it would be wrong - fundamentally wrong - to exclude heterosexuals from the armed forces. The standard for all should be conduct, not status.

Judge Kevin Chang's ruling in Hawaii's Gay marriage case

"The sexual orientation of parents is not in and of itself an indicator of parental fitness... The sexual orientation of parents does not automatically disqualify them from being good, fit, loving or successful parents... The sexual orientation of parents is not in and of itself an indicator of the overall adjustment and development of children... Gay and lesbian parents and same-sex couples can provide children with a nurturing relationship and a nurturing environment which is conducive to the development of happy, healthy and well-adjusted children."

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on gay marriage

"You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values... I still get this shit full-time... They just are haters, period."

NYTimes Frank Rich on DOMA Sponsor Bob Barr

"...principal House sponsor [of the federal anti-gay-marriage law, 'The Defense of Marriage Act'], Bob Barr of Georgia, his district office confirms, has been married three times -- which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision."

Chief Justice Burger on gay parenting

As recently as 1981, a Florida court awarded custody of a child to the father on the grounds that the mother, who was white, married an African-American man, and that the white child would "suffer from the social stigmatization that is sure to come" (an argument frequently invoked nowadays against lesbian and gay parents). That ruling was overturned in a landmark 1984 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which rarely agrees to hear custody cases. "The Constitution cannot control such prejudices," wrote Chief Justice Burger in a stirring opinion, "but neither can it tolerate them. Private biases may be outside the reach of the law, but the law cannot, directly or indirectly, give them effect."

-- Quoted in Out Magazine Dec/Jan 1997 issue, p. 168

Susan B. Anthony on Selective Bible Quoting

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Larry Kramer, Sex and Sensibility, The Advocate, May 27, 1997

Why can't we see that we are being kept in a state of slavery? We are not allowed to learn about ourselves in school. We are not allowed to have teachers teach our culture. We are not allowed student centers to be with our own. We are not allowed to educate about safe sex. We are rarely allowed joint benefits. We are not allowed to inherit tax-free. We are not allowed to marry! We are not allowed... We are not allowed... We are not allowed...

One thousand forty-nine. That is the number of federal statutes that provide benefits, rights, and privileges to individuals who have the legal right to marry. I am at the end of my patience with gays who say they're not interested in obtaining the right to legally marry. Those 1,049 benefits, rights, and privileges, which amount to respect, don't interest them. Dumb, stupid, blind gays opposed to gay marriage obviously have not had to watch helplessly as a lover who has no citizenship or a green card is deported from America like a common criminal.

Demanding legalized gay marriage is a pragmatic decision! It is not about "copying" them. It is about money and rights. Straights don't want us to marry? Then give us all those 1,049 rights, and we'll make up our own form of marriage. No 1,049 rights? Then we demand legalized same-sex marriage!

Read the whole darned article... Larry Kramer was speaking my tune in this one! Excellent article, important stuff, do yourself a favor and read it!

Simone de Beauvoir

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Mike Royko wondering why?

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita [Bryant] to go on television and push orange juice?

Tallulah Bankhead being herself

"I don't know, darling - he never sucked my cock." - on being asked if a certain acquaintance of hers was gay.

John Stewart

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

Fran Lebowitz

If you removed all of the homos and homo influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would be pretty much left with "Let's Make a Deal."

Joan M. Garry, GLAAD Executive Director

My daughter's third grade teacher has the right idea when she tells kids there's only one rule: 'treat others as you would have them treat you.' It serves as the most basic statement of what it really means to be a Christian. Disney should be recognized and applauded for its stance on domestic partnership, and for treating their employees with dignity and respect. The American public should not only continue to enjoy Disney's wealth of creativity and expressions of diversity, as they have for decades, but should turn its back on bigotry as prejudice masquerading as 'pro-family concern.'

...in response to the Southern Baptist Convention's June 18, 1997 announced boycott of Disney

Richard Jennings, Executive Director, Hollywood Supports on SBC Disney Boycott

In finally launching their long threatened boycott against Disney, the Southern Baptists' leadership says they object to Disney's giving domestic partner health benefits to gay and lesbian employees; allowing gays and lesbians to organize group attendance at Disney theme parks, and entertainment produced by Disney subsidiaries that includes gay and lesbian characters. Blinded by their apparent hatred of gays and lesbians, this organization has chosen to ignore basic facts: that Disney is a business in an industry in which virtually every major company now extends domestic partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees, that it would be illegal for Disney to block use of public theme park facilities by any segment of the community, and that entertainment product such as 'Ellen' featuring gay and lesbian characters generates huge ratings with an audience of many millions of Americans. Since this organization's attack on Disney is based on nothing but prejudice, it is a mockery of true religious and family values.

Beatrice Dohrn, Legal Director, Lambda Legal Defense Fund on SBC Disney Boycott

This attack on Disney shows how obsessed the radical right is with punishing lesbians and gay families. Here, you have a company with a show like 'Ellen'--a realistic portrayal of a lesbian --and a policy that voluntarily grants family health insurance to gay employees, a benefit that non-gay workers already get. What could be wrong with that? What's wrong is that the radical right has a policy that, if you treat lesbians and gay men decently, it will retaliate. Apparently, the radical right's campaigns against marriage for gay couples are not enough. Now, far-right extremists are proving our point-without full legal protections, lesbians and gay men are vulnerable to losing even basic, employer-provided health coverage. We're not supposed to get married, and now I guess we're not supposed to even have health insurance.

David Smith, Human Rights Campaign, on SBC Disney Boycott

The Southern Baptist Convention is at odds not just with gay people, but with the majority of people of faith who--despite their differences--are united in opposing discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans. Unlike the Southern Baptist Convention, most people of faith recognize that they can disagree over whether or not homosexuality is right and still agree that discrimination against gay people is wrong. What the Southern Baptist Convention delegates have said with their vote for this boycott is that they don't want even one openly gay person on TV, they don't want us to be treated fairly in the workplace, and--after advocating that gay people be discriminate against throughout society--they don't even want us going to Disneyland. Thankfully, I think most Americans would disagree.

Is Jesus Upset About Health Care for Gays?

by Beverly Bartlett, Columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal

The Southern Baptist Convention voted to boycott Disney.

Well, good for the Baptists. It's about time someone stood up to Disney's shameless propaganda, their insistent promotion of their own perverted sense of a family, the sorry and sickening spectacle of each of their movie plots.

I'm sick and tired of the way Disney solves every woman's problem--be it her career as a hooker ("Pretty Woman"), her beleaguered civilization ("Pocahontas") or her miserable stepmother ("Snow White," "Cinderella")--by having her marry well.

And I'm still steamed about the way they gave the prepubescent American Indian princess such big breasts.

Yeah, boy, the Southern Baptists have really taken a brave stand...

Wait a minute. What's that?

The Baptists aren't upset about the role Disney has played in rearing a generation of girls to look upon themselves as pretty little future wives, just waiting for a prince to rescue them?

Nope.

They're upset that the company is giving out health insurance too freely.

Too many gays and lesbians, in the minds of these Baptists, are getting the likes of annual teeth cleanings and Pap smears. And they also don't like "Ellen" or "Pulp Fiction." So the convention voted to banish Mickey from their homes, Snow White from their VCRs and Peter Jennings, who works for ABC, which is owned by Disney, from their living rooms.

Well, no doubt their kids will be better off. I'm not a big fan of any of that stuff anyway. And it's absolutely, 100 percent, their business. No one has to watch something they find objectionable, whatever their reasons.

This is America, by golly. Boycotts are our right. And the First Amendment grants all of us the opportunity to make our own spiritual way.

That is apparently what one delegate was trying to do when she proclaimed that the boycott "will change us. It will affirm to us and the world that we love Jesus more than we love our entertainment."

Fine.

But in case she or any of the other convention delegates ever wonder why conservative Christians are sometimes seen as hateful and bigoted and judgmental, look at how this appears from the outside.

The Baptist Convention is boycotting not because it believes Disney treats some group or individual badly, but because they think the company treats a group of individuals too well.

Singling out Disney's health-care policy as "anti-family," when so many companies don't provide employees with health care at all, makes Baptists seem as if they don't care about helping struggling families as much as they care about hurting the families they don't like.

The boycott is not about easing miserable conditions at overseas factories. It's not about shaming highly profitable companies for laying off loyal employees. It's not about shunning a movie that spreads hateful stereotypes or ugly untruths.

In a world of sin and suffering, they're upset that one group of people isn't suffering enough.

It seems awfully strange to make a moral judgment that puts everything that touches Disney off limits--from the seemingly ancient, sweet sentiment of "It's A Small World" to a "20/20" interview with Billy Graham--but that excuses the production of crass productions like "Beavis and Butt-Head," skin TV like "Baywatch" and often-crude comedies like "Seinfeld."

Baptists pick their battles like everyone else. But the individuals pushing this agenda should at least admit that their biases are their biases.

They are boycotting ABC not just because they love Jesus more than entertainment, but because they love the parts of the Bible that preach against homosexuality more than they love the parts that preach against hate, or gluttony, or gossip, or working on Sunday, or women cutting their hair.

They are not, after all, boycotting NBC for providing health benefits to Katie Couric, with her sinful bob, or Willard Scott, with his shameless gut.

They are not boycotting Wal-Mart for doing business on Sunday, in direct violation of one of the Ten Commandments.

Does anyone really think that Jesus is worried that too many people are getting health-care coverage?

wac sergeant johnnie phelps

During World War II when General Eisenhower ordered his secretary, WAC sergeant Johnnie Phelps, to reveal the names of all the lesbians in her battalion, she replied, "I'll make your list, but you've got to know that when you get the list back, my name's going to be first." Eisenhower canceled his order.

rt. rev. john shelby spong on biblical accuracies

Regarding the ludicrous Southern Baptist Church's amended statement of belief "A wife ... has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation... A wife has to submit herself graciously to the servant-leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ."

The Rt. Reverend John Shelby Spong, Episcopal bishop of Newark New Jersey, had this to say:

"The Bible also says the earth is flat, epilepsy is caused by demon possession, slavery is a legitimate institution, women are the property of men and God orders the people of Israel to go to war and kill every man, woman and child from the nation of Amalekite," he said.

diane carman, denver post

The opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to live in fear of being beaten to death is the only 'special right' our culture bestows on homosexuals.

president bill clinton on hate crimes legislation 10/12/1998

Let me also take a moment here to offer my prayers and my condolences to the family of Matthew Shepard, as well as to the community of Laramie, Wyoming and the university. While it wouldn't be proper for me to comment on the specifics of this case I do want to say again, crimes of hate and crimes of violence cannot be tolerated in our country. In our shock and grief one thing must remain clear, hate and prejudice are not American values. The public outrage in Laramie and all across America today echoes what we heard at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes last year -- there is something we can do about this, Congress needs to pass our tough Hate Crimes Legislation. It can do so even before it adjourns and it should do so.

I hope that in the grief of this moment for Matthew Shepard's family, and in the shared outrage across America, American's will once again search their hearts and do what they can to reduce their own fear and anxiety and anger at people who are different. And I hope that Congress will pass the Hate Crimes Legislation.

Negative Quotes

Charlton Heston, The Free Congress Foundation, December 1997

I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund raisers but boycott gun-rights fund raisers -- and then claim it's time to place homosexual men in tents with boy scouts and suggest that sperm-donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served.

Charlton Heston, December 1997

Mainstream America is depending on you -- counting on you -- to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

Charlton Heston, December 1997

The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old, dead, white guys who invented this country. It's true -- they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln's name, opposing slavery in the 1860s. So, why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is Hispanic pride or black pride a good thing, while white pride conjures up shaved heads and white hoods?

Errr.... Chuck, perhaps it conjures up that image because it's found quoted on David Dukes' web site, on Aryan Nation propaganda, and the like. You know, you are judged by the company you keep. But actually, your words paint you in a complete enough light all by themselves!

Charlton Heston, June 1998 to NRA Convention>

America didn't trust you with their health-care system, America didn't trust you with gays in the military, America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters. And we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns.

As written in Time magazine's July 6, 1998 issue:

A few days later, Clinton aide Rahm Emanuel chided the actor for "personal insults", given that Clinton had made gracious remarks about Heston at a recent Kenedy Center Honors ceremony and received him at the White House. Chastened, Heston told TIME, "I don't think I should have used quite such harsh language about the President."

So he doesn't even have the courage of his convictions when it comes to hobnobbing with folks, eh????

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