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Here‘s the thing about rights—they‘re not actually supposed to be voted on. That‘s why they‘re called rights.- Rachel Maddow
Monday, May 28, 2012 ♥ 1,102 notes
Source: MSNBC
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Watch as Rachel Maddow addresses how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has ties to ex-gay organizations, just like his hyper-conservative past opponent Michele Bachmann: Romney’s foundation donated $10,000 to an organization that backs ex-gay therapy and paid for a campaign showing trans* people as sexual predators.
This is important. Journalism is important. LGBT media figures are important. Who else has talked about this? Not many people.
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I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.- Rachel Maddow speaking about gay marriage in the latest Hollywood Reporter. Do you agree? Should we be preserving gay subcultures or thriving to be seen as mainstream? More.
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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.- Rachel Maddow
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Right to serve: Former Cadet Katie Miller left West Point as a result of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but reapplied after the repeal was signed. She was rejected because the repeal hasn’t taken effect yet, and she’s not applying again. Rachel Maddow interviews her here. Powerful stuff.
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This is a clip from an episode of Rachel Maddow’s show a while back. In this episode, Maddow dissects a comic book provided by the U.S. military years ago to help soldiers understand the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.
The comic book is titled “Dignity and Respect,” and in very few words, Maddow will show you why DADT provides anything but that. As she illustrates, the complexities of the law are extremely complicated, wasting time on unnecessary operations for discharges on the basis of “homosexual conduct.” But more important than that - this policy is just wrong.
Check back for updates on how the DADT repeal vote is going throughout the day.
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Rachel Maddow interviews author of Uganda anti-homosexuality bill
Surely you’ve all heard by now, but we’ll do a little recap:
A bill pending in Ugandan parliament calls for life imprisonment for “homosexual acts” and the death penalty for “instances of aggravated homosexuality.”
David Bahati, the Ugandan parliament member who wrote the bill, talked to Rachel Maddow this week about the foundation of the bill. He says he’s not interested in a hate-driven campaign, but instead wants to protect children who are being recruited to homosexuality.
…Really?
Really. There are people in the world who still think in this backwards way. Maddow asked Bahati for factual evidence supporting his ignorant and terrifying bill, but he couldn’t produce any. This bigoted way of thinking is the norm in some places, and it has to stop.
Click the link above for videos of the interview. Click here for Amnesty International’s coverage of Uganda’s climate towards gays and lesbians, and click here to help them out.
We have to stop this, and Maddow’s work is a start.
