links for 2006-10-14

14 Oct 2006

Remarks at the Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honorable Mark Dybul as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Secretary Rice actually welcomes the Ambassador’s same-sex partner and his partner’s mother, to whom she refers as the Ambassador’s “mother-in-law”, in the presence of Laura Bush.

(tags: statedepartment condoleezzarice gay AIDS diplomacy hypocrisy)
Page scandal exposes GOP’s gay identity crisis [usatoday]

I think I’d use the word “hypocrisy” rather than “identify crisis”; they demonize us in public in order to pull the wool over the right’s eyes, but are happy to take gay dollars and sweat equity in private. And some gays actively promote this.

(tags: republicans rightwing gay hypocrisy statedepartment condoleezzarice conservatism usatoday)

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