After you sign the “petition,” you are taken to a page that asks for a donation. HRC pads its membership list – once you’re a member and make a minimum $35 donation, you’re always considered a member, even if you never make another donation in your life. As I said, the money that HRC has wasted over the years would have been better spent on the state level gaining equal rights.

I was a Field Associate for the Gay Rights National Lobby, and I was SO proud to be one. No door was open to me, but I pounded and waited, and caught people in hallways, and, a bit at a time we made progress. It was a win every time no one had to die before we had an interview. Now I’m still on all the mailing lists, but very seldom do I feel a reason to respond. At 20, I could concede getting AIDS research funded might be a bigger emergency than a lesbian mother with a custody problem. But I’m damned if, at this age, I get the big panic because one kid in a graduating class of 200 can’t get to a stupid dance.

This girl will be a problem for the movement heavies that are so happy to have her little white face on the teevee. Trouble is coming, with her name on it. Everyone will be embarrassed, mark my words. What a waste.

We have important things to do, folks. Try to concentrate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8604625.stm

Brooke – I can see going ahead with the lawsuit (ACLU sued), but HRC was just looking for another poster child, and now they have one. They’ll be parading her in front of the $350/plate dinners around the country and we still have DADT, DOMA, and no Federal Equal Rights legislation.

I advise people that instead of giving their money to HRC, give it to local gay and lesbian (real ones, not the simulated ones Mike Steele prefers) rights organizations.

Okay so now we can go back to disagreeing. Counseling is available to liberals distressed by the results.

You wouldn’t say something so mean if you knew the goats.

http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/uncategorized/reb-publicans/

They’re horrible, prejudiced people. Stipulated. But I can’t believe what a sorry excuse for a cause celeb it is, in a world full of absolute MISERY, ABUSE, and death for gay teens.

*shakes head* The uproar over this reinforces every stereotype, on both sides.

wipes you clean like Sherman to the coast!

And they talk about kids being mean. Can’t we just give MS back to the French? Reminds me of the “white flight” from public schools that were ordered to desegregate.

Yey Treason!

I celebrated by taking a smash on the Stars and Bars then burning it.