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Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mind

Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

While I agree with Dean in principle, supporting Democrats by default is a pathetic plea.

If someone offers something positive, then you support them. But supporting a party because it hasn't actively offered legislation to harm us it completely lame. Until Hillary finally spoke up last week, we didn't even exist.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Yeah, the Democrats will throw us out of the sleigh if it helps them escape from the wolves.

The Republicans are the wolves.


And you know what? At the national level, we really only have two choices. Because of the two-party system (which isn't really something I'd call "democracy" or even "representative democracy") voting for any third party (Libertarian, Reform, or some mythical Gay Marriage for Everyone! party) is, unfortunately, the practical equivalent of not voting at all. And since politics is personal for all gay people (until all discrimination ends), the ethical equivalent as well.

I'm not delighted with the Democratic Party, and the whole reason both parties keep the two-party "democracy" so firmly in place is so we're forced to choose between alternatives that would otherwise be unacceptable, and I wish like hell we could get rid of that...but unfortunately it has worked. They have us in a forked stick.

Given those facts, I'll vote for the party that doesn't want to put me in a concentration camp, rather than help a party that does want to do that win (actively or passively).
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Yes, Clinton screwed us on DOMA, and his wife is following suit.

Thats the best endorsement for Hillary yet. take that on the road. Please.

Most Dems, including Clinton, chose to bash gays rather than fall on their swords. Yeah, it sucks. But I don't hold politicians that responsible for falling victim to "gotcha" votes unless we as a community have done our homework in laying the groundwork to make it possible for those politicians to vote against this kind of legislation (though Clinton bragged in radio ads about supporting DOMA, and that was wrong).

Political expediency. How does that make him different?

Then there's my story. I took and passed the Foreign Service Exam (oral and written) in 1989. It was my dream to join the Foreign Service. And I didn't because I was convinced they'd find out I was gay and that would be the end of my career. Funnily enough, prior drug use wasn't a problem for getting your security clearance, but being gay potentially was. I eventually refused to file the papers to get my first appointment, and that was that. The end of at least one of my dreams.

If you are seeking a luke warm clearance then maybe drug abuse is overlooked. I can guarantee you that for most it is not. By luke warm i mean the politically motivated clearances that will likely result in leaks as so oft happens. When is the last time you heard of a uniform leaking info and not being prosecuted? Yet how many "condition of anonymity" news articles do you read? It is a double standard that harms the US in that our political leaders have to lift themselves vice protecting the country.

They are the folks who block hate crimes legislation (Trent Lott personally killed it right after Matthew Shepard died).

I still wonder why it is we need more laws. Is it to force a sentence upon a murderer because some liberal judge would give them probation? How much more than life can you impose? Murder one invokes life. I really fail to see how it does anything but make you feel good that when your dead there is a law named after you. WHOO HOO.

I know that the author is not you spensed but feel free to write to him. You used his argument so feel free to answer his BS.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Oh forget it I responded to him myself.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Switching subjects, I always wondered about those security clearances. Did the KGB or someone have a whole lot of really hot studs trained the seduce men, or something? :help:
No, it was entirely self-fulfilling, and circular logic. Gay men were a security risk because they could be fired if anyone found out, because gay men were a security risk. Since this would justify anything you wanted to exclude, it is plainly bullshit.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

If you have bad credit you can not get a clearance. the logic is based on vulnerability. That logic of vulnerability has been tested out over and over again.

If something can be used to lever your life and career against your principles then it is a disqualifier for a clearance.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Bravo for all your posts in this thread, MattieMich! :=D:
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

In this case the "liberal" label would be a misnomer. Hate crime laws are needed to stop conservative judges or the Bible Benchers from laughing off a gay bashing as just drunk frat boys or rednecks having a little fun....boys being boys. Or having the insulting "gay panic" defense being used. If you think gays need protection from the liberals then you're...as Howard Dean implied...soft in the head.

Every step in the legal system is a struggle for gay people when looking for fairness...it's hard to get law enforcement to label attacks correctly, it's hard for them to get prosecuted correctly and it's hard to get the perpetrators sentenced correctly. If hate crime laws for gays and lesbians are so meaningless...hate crime laws across the board are meaningless...I look forward to the Republicans offering up legislation removing religion from protected status.

So Mathhew Sheperd was somehow viewed as not a murder? A fist fight between straight and gay men is not just a fist fight? Is it different than when hispanics and African Americans battle outside clubs because of ethnicity? It is still illegal. Please give me a case where a judge said the boys was just havin a leettle fun, ya know, that there fightin is what we do round har.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

I agree that that first case was a miscarriage of justice. Sounds to me like the facts were there but the lawyer failed to have a fucking brain.

The failure to report will be enhanced by hate crimes laws? The statistics from now need to show that hate crimes laws exist and are making change. Police feel you have to hate to commit crime. I can see their point, I have never killed someone I like. But how does that make a hate crime law more effective in bringing out reporting victims?

In the reporting of zeros, why doesn't the statistical agency find someway to hold agencies who enter a zero vice non reporting accountable? How does a hate crimes law do that?

Help me out. I see the hurt that is out there. I just fail to see how it helps. How does having a hate crime law make it so that the little old black lady report hateful graffitti? What would prevent a judge from saying something was good natured fun? We dont have madatory sentences because the federal guidelines were repealed.

So what do it do?
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

I don't think anyone's asserting that the Clintons have a perfect record on gay rights. They don't.

But, having said that, Bill Clinton did more for gays and improving their profile in government than any other American President and both Hillary and Obama have actively courted the gay vote. Their Supreme Court nominees alone makes them attractive candidates for guys interested in advancing gay civil rights.

As for whether one should vote for an anti-gay candidate because one supports him or her on other issues, what's so difficult with the race analogy? Clearly, in certain circumstances, expediency could theoretically compel a black guy to vote for a racist in the interests of achieving some greater goal, whatever that might be. It's a question of what priority you give to your civil rights.

If you put advancing gay civil rights towards the top of your agenda, you aren't in your right mind if you vote Republican.

Plus, as I say, the one issue is often a gateway issue on other matters. Guys who are anti minority civil rights tend to have a right wing agenda that goes along with that. So, surprise, surpise, Supreme Court appointees like Scalia are not only, in effect, against personal sexual privacy. but they also are ok with government sponsored torture, otherwise illegal surveillance, etc.

The other point is that the modern day Republican party has been hijacked by a plutocracy interested only in perpetuting itself and not traditional Republican values. So you're not in your right mind if you can support open ended foreign entanglements financed by loans from the Chinese, huge government, huge deficits, government bailouts for businesses, state intrusion into individual lives, etc.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Couple things

Dean is known for mouthing off - why he has the job that he does is a mystery - he clearly peaked in the dem primary process years ago - the first internet/blog politician to really make their mark - and then he flamed away quickly post the 50 state rant meltdown - oh well

they put him in his current job to ................ not sure

he is a bomb thrower

the kind of guy that never looks for common ground - never looks for bipartisanship - instead prefers to demonize the other side

his lack of leadership during the dem primary battles is established - he had/has no ideas for what to do in fla/mich - and basically no one gives a shit what he says despite his job tittle

he has criticized mccain and any repubs indiscriminately

see him on a sun am news show and he filibusters extreme lib talking points

its what he does - it's who HE is

man w/o a real role anymore

shoulda stayed gov of vermont - perfect setting

interesting that he's a defendent in a sex discrimination suit - little eliot spitzer type say one thing do another controversy? we'll find out - maybe

anyway

one issue does not make my support for a candiate
not gay rights
not abortion
not economic policy
not national security

it all works to make a profile for a candidate - and u have to make ur decision

and for howard dean to suggest that if ur black or gay there's NO way u can vote republican ................ says a lot about howard dean, his immaturity, his self absorption, his lack of ability to understand much of anything

consider the source
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

^ Yeah, let's add gays to all the black guys that'll be voting for McCain. Dream on.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

^ Yeah, let's add gays to all the black guys that'll be voting for McCain. Dream on.

dude - gays/blacks/whomever - can vote for whomever they want - THEY want

Howard Dean - not his place to say this person/that group should not do such and such - period

gays wanna vote 100% obama/hillary - whatever - fine - it's each person's right



i would suggest

that the next time u bring something to the party

the party being JUB

will be the first time

betcha im not alone on that one

despite the 80/20 thingy

keep trying though

you'll get it one day
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

you'll get it one day

Unfortunately, I don't think you will. LOL.

The majority of blacks and gays don't vote Republican because most of them appreciate that that would be voting against their own interests and concerns.

But you don't need to argue with me. Check out the historical voting statistics and the ones after the coming Presidential election.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

chance1, it's each person's right to decide how to vote. It's also each person's right to decide what to eat.

That doesn't change the fact that a person who eats nothing but candy is being really, really stupid. So are gays who vote Republican.
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Well, he's right.
But Democrat gays aren't in their right minds, either. The only party that really accepts gays as people, not as a special interest to be manipulated or an embarrassing minority to be kept hidden, is the Libertarian.

Unless that Libertarian is Ron Paul, who thinks gay men get AIDS because they like attention.

But you know. There's only that one little thing.

And isn't it Dean's job promote the Democratic Party?
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

chance1, it's each person's right to decide how to vote. It's also each person's right to decide what to eat.

That doesn't change the fact that a person who eats nothing but candy is being really, really stupid. So are gays who vote Republican.

exactly - to part one

as for part 2 - ur position is one issue voting

which is the really stupid thingy
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

Unfortunately, I don't think you will. LOL.

The majority of blacks and gays don't vote Republican because most of them appreciate that that would be voting against their own interests and concerns.

But you don't need to argue with me. Check out the historical voting statistics and the ones after the coming Presidential election.

missed again spensed

we'll try one last time

u keep making my point and arguing against urs

people vote as they see fit - not because howard dean or u tells them they have to

history says blacks/gays vote dem - that's cool

that's history

last i looked gays are affluent - so economics r important to them - paying taxes - gays like to be safe too - so security is important

and so on

for u/the screamer to suggest how someone SHOULD vote, is just u/he being soooooooo self absorbed

yeah

cya spensed :wave:

my earlier comment stands - even moreso

next time is the first time

it's my new motto

for u
 
Re: Dean: Gay Republicans aren't in their right mi

people vote as they see fit - not because howard dean or u tells them they have to..

Is it one of your voices who's arguing that people vote because Howard Dean or I tell them they have to? Certainly no one else is.

Howard Dean is simply pointing out the fact, which even you acknowledge historically, that the majority of gays don't vote, and shouldn't vote, Republican because the Republicans haven't promoted, and don't promote, pro-gay policies.

There you see how easy that is.
 
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