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HOWARD DEAN’S GAY BASHG OF RALPH NAR
Howard Dean gay bashed Ralph Nar on live rad before lns of listeners on NPR and no one chimed to stop him. How uld the Vermont also-ran, shillg for the anti-gay marriage John Kerry, slanr the only printial ndidate who is for gay marriage by claimg over and over that Nar had accepted support om anti-gay Republins? Nar has not only e out for same-sex marriage–a basic civil right–but he is for endg legal discrimatn agast gays and lbians that allows employers to fire someone for their sexual orientatn 36 stat.
Though Dean is often tmpeted as a great advote of gay and lbian rights bee Vermont was the first state to offer civil unns while he was ernor, the realy behd that partial victory expos Dean’s own opportunistic nod to the homophob. When the Vermont Supreme Court unanimoly led that gay upl were due the same legal rights of marriage as heterosexuals and orred the legislature to pass a law to that effect 1999, Dean ma clear that he would not sign gay marriage to law and phed stead for civil unns. Kerry voted agast Clton’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) 1996–though 118 Democrats voted for –but sce then he has e out strongly agast same-sex marriage and has repeatedly nmned the Massachetts legislature for grantg marriag to gay and lbian upl.
Clton’s “support”for gay civil rights was so half-hearted that he refed to e his fluence to even get a vote on ENDA onto the Hoe floor.
RALPH NAR NET WORTH, WIFE, GAY, FAY, AGE, WIKI
The Dean-Nar bate was aired on the very day when Republins the Senate were phg to wre discrimatn agast gays and lbians to the Constutn via the Feral Marriage Amendment. Those ncerned wh gay issu should remember the lsons om the Clton years when cidg whom to vote for November. Though Clton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy led to wch-hunts of gays the ary, gay prs such as The Advote, Lambda Legal Defense and most AIDS activists ACT-UP sisted that gay rights supporters vote for a send Clton term 1996 and not mobilize protts that might embarrass Clton.
And while I fd this party of Neanrthal blowhards to be repugnant s anti-immigrant and homophobic views–they are not the views of Ralph Nar! Nar’s clumsy handlg so far of the Reform Party’s endorsement should be challenged by his supporters, but takg heat om the lik of Democrats who have helped shape anti-gay polici such as “don’t ask, don’t tell” and DOMA is simply nseatg. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, protts agast gay bashg and for AIDS dgs and gay rights explod onto the streets of dozens of ci rponse to the reactnary polici of the Reagan and Bh I admistratns.