Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Dan Savage 2012!

This is too good not to repost in its entirety. From Seattle's The Stranger, October 11, 2010:


Confidential to the White House
by Dan Savage

Fuck you, you pack of co-opting cowards.

Seriously. You can do a more than offer hope. You have the power to make it better. Right now. Suspend enforcement of DADT. Don't appeal the decision by a federal judge that declared DADT unconstitutional. Stop defending DOMA in court. Keep your promises. Make it better. And if you're not going to keep your promises or do what you can to make it better, White House, then you could at least have the simple human decency to shut the fuck up.

State-sanctioned discrimination against LGBT people legitimizes the kind of anti-gay attitudes and beliefs that lead directly to anti-gay bullying at the ballot box and anti-gay bullying in schools. You can do more. Enough with the speeches. Enough with the pretty words—particularly lifted ones.

Fuck you.



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