A brief postscript to Howie's reply (below) to the astonishingly-still-anonymous accusations of the Lieberman lackey who's shoveling the boss's shit
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I really think that in the year 2006 we're past the point where you can pretend you're:
(a) not a homophobe because you don't want to see all faggots killed or castrated or even thrown in jail, and
(b) not a racist because you don't advocate bringing back slavery or permitting lynchings.
It's true that there are a lot of homophobes and bigots who really and truly don't realize that they are. But that doesn't seem to be Senator Joe's problem, since he never seems to have had any trouble staking out the positions that are a matter of exceedingly public record.
No, what seems to be troubling the senator—and his associates, past and present—is a public-relations problem. But somehow the senator and his entourage seem to have lost sight of the source of that problem, which is surely those positions he's taken in the course of his public career, no? Once you take those positions, at least until you publicly disown them, don't you have to kind of, um, shut yer trap when people complain about them?
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posted by KenInNY @ 1:42 PM
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Excellent blog! Keep up the great writing.. lord knows we need it.
Just read your post at Huffpo.
Great post! Keep up the superb work.
More Rebuttal for Gerstein to chew on. This comes from Paul Varnell. Holy Joe likes to imply here and there that antigay bigotry is o.k. cause the bible tells us so. Gerstein really has to be performing pretzel logic if he says that Joe is not a bigot.
http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/varnell/varnell37.html
D-Conn., [the 2000] Democratic nominee for vice president, printed in the Congressional Record of July 10, 1998. Lieberman said:
Many Americans continue to believe that homosexuality is immoral and not just because the Bible tells them so....
This is one of the few areas where Americans of all religious inclinations feel so strongly that they are willing to risk the tag of intolerance to express or hold to their points of view....
It is unfair, then, for anyone to automatically conclude that people who express moral reservations or even disdain about homosexuality are bigots, or to publicly attack them as hateful. These are sincerely held morally based views.
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