Playing the "humiliation card"
Mrs. Lynne Cheney and George H. W. Bush pronounced Kerry to be "a bad man" for mentioning that Cheney's daughter, Mary, is a Lesbian. (AS IF Mary Cheney has not been on the front cover of national news magazines proclaiming her lesbianism!)
As far as I'm concerned, Lynne Cheney is "a bad woman" and George H. W. Bush is "a bad man" for failing to watch the Cheney-Edwards debate in which Dick Cheney took pride and acted boldly in the discussion of his daughter's lesbianism as it has been in this campaign for a long time! Mrs. Cheney and the elder Bush should both be ashamed to admit that they failed to watch that debate!
This game of playing the "humiliation card" is pathetic! Families have gay relatives and it is common knowledge. Once it is known (and it needs to be known everywhere and by everyone), the non-gays in the families are forever inelligible to play the humiliation card in any public setting. This posturing to make the subject of homosexuality extremely marginalized and terrifying for the general public to use is part of the reason that gays are fighting these battles in the first place.
How DARE the Bushes and the Cheneys try to paint Kerry with that brush! They are evil and if Bush manages to stay in power, it will only get WORSE in the next four years!
posted by hishusbear @ 1:33 PM
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This is an open letter to my dear Mother.
In the summer of 1964, you were first exposed to the truth of my gayness. I do not expect you to be humiliated if some friend confronts you about having met your son "...and his friend" but it wouldn't hurt you to give them permission to open the conversation with you by adding, "They are actually LEGALLY MARRIED in Canada since August, 2003" rather than struggling to change the subject to avoid embarrassment! Essentially, you've been playing the humiliation card for more than 40 years!
That is so touching. I just want you to know that every gay person has been there. But remember, Mothers hold the guilt/embarrassed card. They love their children dearly. Sometimes it is harder for the older folks to accept change. I went thru it. My Aunt (who raised me) was disgusted and sickened when I revealed the truth. Then later, she told me she wondered what did she do that made me this way. Then just before she died, she told me she hoped I would find a good and honest man. Sometimes, they shock us. Peace.
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