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gay and lesbian community, said David Smith,
Human Rights Campaign spokesman. “He is trying
to weasel his way out of it with a lame excuse.”
Frank said the remark
contradicted G O P efforts
to preacFt tolerance. “1
think the Bush people
must be annoyed because
here they put on this
elaborate show of inclu
siveness, and then Dick
Armey reminds people
what the Republican
Party leadership is really
like, with a gratuitously
nasty, bigoted comment.”
Armey has a history of sticking his foot in his
mouth when talking about Frank. In 1995, he
referred to him as “Barney Fag” hut chalked it up
to a slip of the tongue.
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tom. As long as hard-working Americans can be
ice President A1 Gore’s selection of U.S.
fired in 30 states simply for being gay, our family
Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate
is not whole. As long as gay people are barred
is being met with mixed reactions.
from serving openly and with dignity in the
“Sen. Liebermans record is one that bears
studying and watching,” said Elizabeth Toledo,
armed forces of the United States, our family Ls
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force execu
not just. As long as gay, lesbian, bisexual and
tive director. “He has a generally good record
transgender youth are at risk for suicide, until
on issues important to the gay, lesbian, bisexu
there is a cure for A ID S...th e American family
al and transgender community. At the
we celebrate tonight is not yet healed.”
same time, Lieberman, like Clinton
and like Gore, has not always proven
to be a friend of the progressive com
ick and Lynne Cheney might be
munity when we needed him.”
1 supportive parents, but they still
In the last session of this C on
seem to be in denial about their
gress, the Connecticut Democrat
daughter’s sexual orientation and the
rated a perfect 100 on the Human
impact it will have during the coming
Rights Campaigns scorecard of gay
months. In fact, Mommie Dearest went
related issues. In the Congress
so far as to shove her daughter back
before that, he scored an impressive
into the closet during an interview
Joe Lieberman
83 percent.
with Cokie Roberts on This W eek.
However, going back a few years, Lieber
“Mary has never declared such a thing,”
man— a pro-choice moderate hut a cultural
Lynne Cheney insisted. “I would like to say that
conservative— had some significant anti-gay
I’m appalled at the media interest in one of my
votes. He favored the Defense of Marriage
daughters. I have two wonderful daughters. 1
Act, which allowed states to refuse recogni
love them very much. They are bright; they are
tion of same-sex marriages performed in other
hard-working; they are decent. And I simply
states, and opposed allowing people with
am not going to talk about their personal lives.
AIDS to immigrate into the United States.
And I’m surprised, Cokie, that even you would
Lieberman also voted in 1993 to kill the
want to bring it up on this program."
District of Columbia’s Domestic Partners Act
Meanwhile, former Defense Secretary
and in 1989 to prevent schools from using
Cheney, the G O P vice presidential nominee,
educational materials that “promote homo
was mum about his daughters in an interview
sexuality” or portray homosexuality as “nor
with Tony Snow. “I’m running for public
mal, natural or healthy.” He also is a staunch
office; they’re entitled to their privacy.”
supporter of taxpayer-funded vouchers for pri
vate and religious schools, which some say
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threatens both teachers and students who rely
esperate times call for desperate
on public schools for nondiscrimination and
measures.
anti-harassment policies.
Pat Buchanan is resorting to gay bashing as
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about the openly gay Massachusetts Democrat,
reports an Aug. 5 Washington Post story.
After the Republican National Convention
session Aug. 2, humor
columnist Dave Barry
approached Armey and
asked, “Are you really
Dick Armey?” He replied:
“Yes, I am Dick Armey.
And if there is a dick
army, Barney Frank would
want to join up.”
Spokeswoman
Michelle Davis justified
the remark by saying
Armey was trying to cut
off journalists who were making fun of his name.
“He reacted the way most people react when
they are tired of hearing the same old jokes.”
Armey should apologize to Frank and the entire
S I
lizabeth Birch, Human Rights Campaign
executive director, made history Aug. 15
as the first leader of a gay organization to speak
at a national political convention.
Her prime-time appearance during the
Democratic National Convention in Los Ange
les highlighted presidential nominee A1 Gore’s
commitment to diversity. Birch challenged the
country to embrace equality for all people.
“Not a single gay American seeks special
rights or favored treatment,” she said. “We seek
simple equality— the equal right to work, raise
a family, serve our country in every way and be
free from the shackles of brutality and hate.
“As long as a young man can he left on a
fence to die, our American family is fractured.
As long as gay parents live in fear that their chil
dren might he taken from them, our family is
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a "wedge issue” to distinguish himself from the
Bush-Cheney ticket, political insider Hastings
Wyman reports in his latest “Capital Letters”
column. A t a recent news conference, the
Reform Party candidate denounced “rampant
homosexuality" in the United States, which
he said was “a sign of cultural decadence and
moral decline."
Buchanan might target the absence of anti
gay rhetoric during the Republican National
Convention, gay Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe’s
speech and lesbian Mary Cheney’s presence in
the party’s Second Family to lure homophobes
from Bush. He recently selected Ezola Foster, a
California schoolteacher with a history of anti
gay activism, as his running mate.
■ Com piled by C opy Editor JlM R a d OSTA, who
can he reached at jim @ justout.com .