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Topic: Gay New York Times Columnist Wants
Bill Clinton To Apologize For ´Nasty´ Law |
Gay New York Times Columnist Wants
Bill Clinton To Apologize For ´Nasty´ Law
Business Insider, by Erin Fuchs
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 12/2/2012 11:09:41 AM
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| As the Supreme Court decides whether to review the Defense of Marriage Act, the New York Times´ first openly gay columnist is assailing Bill Clinton for ever signing the anti-gay law. Frank Bruni wrote an open letter to Clinton in his Sunday op-ed, calling out the popular former president for not fully participating in the gay rights movement or apologizing for signing DOMA. "Doma ... is one of the uglier blemishes on your record, an act of indisputable discrimination that codified unequal treatment of gay men and lesbians," Bruni wrote, calling the law "a nasty bit of business."
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Comments:
I did not know Bruni was gay and I´m trying to figure out why his sexual proclivities would matter to me? Why does he want us to know?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 12/2/2012 11:24:55 AM (No. 9044444)
How precious.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 12/2/2012 11:30:50 AM (No. 9044458)
The key word here being "openly"...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DARling, 12/2/2012 11:35:59 AM (No. 9044466)
"Nasty" is what gay men do to each other behind closed doors.
Defending the time-honored tradition of marriage involving men and women married to each other is not nasty. It pains me to say this, but thank you, Bill Clinton.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ramona, 12/2/2012 11:36:21 AM (No. 9044468)
Marriage (traditionally) is 1 man, 1 woman united for life by law and moral/religious precept for the purpose of raising children and forming strong families that are the building blocks of society.
Today marriage is 2 people, united by law for the purpose of tax advantage and to force society to accept, sanction and bless what is traditionally thought of as an aberration at best, a moral perversion at worst. Change also the terms used to describe the union (no longer bride and groom).
Now any resemblance to marriage is completely lost. But we aren´t supposed to notice. Just like we aren´t supposed to notice when a Republic is thwarted by the abandonment of Constitutional protections.
The world has turned upside down. Anyone else feeling a little dizzy?
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Reality, 12/2/2012 11:39:29 AM (No. 9044476)
I would suggest that he stick it where the sun don´t shine, but he would probably enjoy that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono, 12/2/2012 11:48:41 AM (No. 9044485)
Sorry, Brunei -- but sticking one´s life-creation tool into someone else´s waste-expelling orifice is the veritable epitome of "a nasty bit of business".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 12/2/2012 11:54:39 AM (No. 9044493)
Thank you #3,4. I can add nothing more...
...except for, Frank who?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 12/2/2012 12:16:44 PM (No. 9044522)
Ok, you win, I´m really really sorry. Now go back to doing what you do...UGH!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/2/2012 12:23:58 PM (No. 9044528)
@#3: Don`t thank Bill Clinton just yet. If it will help get Shrillary elected in 2016 he`ll apologize for all to hear - but only at the most opportune political moment.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MsMontana, 12/2/2012 12:30:14 PM (No. 9044542)
Yet tax law is fair to everyone...../sarcasm.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/2/2012 3:30:17 PM (No. 9044748)
the New York Times´ first openly gay columnist
This is 2012 ... how come he´s the first?
If being gay is just a "good" thing, how come some of them are still in the closet?
Is it something that they might be ashamed of?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/2/2012 3:37:09 PM (No. 9044754)
Frankie, put down that appletini for a minute and show me the language that "codifies inequality," ´K? ´Cause it looks to me like the legal language applies equally to: the gay, the straight, the rational, the delusional, the 30-year-old, the 80-year-old, left-handers, right-handers, tropical-fish-fanciers, pretty much everyone of the age of majorityequally.
OP: As to why, I´d guess it´s so we don´t think his wardrobe is the result of hideously bad taste alone. Or refined taste, as the case may be. It´s often one extreme or the other.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99, 12/2/2012 3:55:51 PM (No. 9044773)
Do yourself and all the rest of us a favor, Frankie, and go back in the closet.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 12/3/2012 4:31:24 AM (No. 9045302)
Getting Slick to apologize for the nasty law seems hypocritical. He is the maven of nasty.
Wonder how the author pronounces their last name ?
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