From Gary Bauer’s “End of Day” listserv:
Dean’s “Honor”
Last week 40 members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, attended Pope John Paul II’s funeral. For virtually all of them it was a moving experience. But Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, was not part of the trip.
Instead, he was back here in Washington, D.C., receiving the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which called Dean “one of the nation’s most gay supportive politicians.” The award was presented to him by Kate Michelman, the former leader of NARAL.
You may recall that Dean said some months ago that he wanted to reach out to religious voters–and for good reason. Dean and his fellow Democrats find themselves out of power today because most people of faith view the national Democrat Party as hostile to their values and beholden to fringe special interest groups. As a result, the party has been hemorrhaging more and more Catholic votes with each major election.
But somehow I doubt accepting an award recognizing Dean’s support for the radical homosexual rights agenda, presented to him by a leader of the pro-abortion movement, mere hours before the pope’s funeral, is an effective method of religious outreach!
I don’t know, Gary. Seems pretty effective to this religious voter.
But what the hell do I know? I’m only a yahoo from the United Church of Christ.
Erm, an ordained yahoo.
Erm, an ordained yahoo from the same Christian denomination as Howard Dean.
But hey, what do we know about religious outreach, right?
I guess I should say, “What do we know about religious outreach, correct?”
Oh, never mind.
From where I sit I’d say that truly religious people should be jumping up and down that Dean was honored for furthering civil rights for a certain group of people that are being denied rights that everyone else automatically takes for granted…forget that stupid, tired,ridiculous expression ‘radical homosexual rights agenda’ crap. Yeah, wanting to get married and raise kids is truly a friggin radical idea all right.
And to coin a phrase of the radical right, it seems Dean was helping promote a culture of life for everyone here instead of playing at being pious by going to Rome.
a whole lotta credit… he’s out there doing what he believes is right… that’s what i’ve admired about him from the beginning… what you see is what you get…
he’s the first national political figure that i would classify as “transparent…” (my own little categorization scheme – transparent and opaque; transparent people aren’t hiding anything and opaque people – well, who the hell knows cuz you can’t see anything behind the front…) transparency, i believe, is part of why howard couldn’t get further than he did last year… the public has no clue about how to respond to someone like that… let’s face it, there isn’t anyone else on the national political scene who even comes close…
Gary Bauer? Eh, what a maroon.
Just an FYI PastorDan – my Mom is a devout Mormon in Salt Lake City and she is totally in favor of gay unions. Her answer is – church ceremonies are not the same as a state marriage license.
Now granted she is something of a rabble-rousing independent…but devout Mormon nonetheless. She will quote you chapter and verse of the Book of Mormon and Bible on tolerance.
Bushco needs to learn not to mess with old folks – tolerance is important when you live that long!
Yeh–I was at an opera in good old conservative Lancaster last winter, and overheard two grannies saying pretty much the same thing.
When you’ve lost the grandmothers, the debate is over.
There goes my rant about how we are selling out the party and compromising our values.
I mean for consistencies sake can’t Dean tell those Gays and Lesbians that they aren’t welcome in the party anymore. How are we going to win votes if we stand for civil rights. Don’t they know that its really Johnson’s fault that George has so much power now.
Besides Dean probably didn’t even get an invitation, politically he is worse than Carter, and boy did he deserve that snub. Just because Carter was the first President to host the Pope in the White House doesn’t mean that he understands religious voters. Come on, when was the last lynching Carter went to? I thought he was a good ole’ boy from Georgia.