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The eighth President of the United States
Did you know Martin Van Buren was gay? Honest. This President of the United States — our eighth — was homosexual. I bet you didn't know that. Van Buren also, by the way, was vice president under Andrew Jackson and was Secretary of State under Jackson for a while also.
OK, Martin Van Buren wasn't gay. But Guido Westerwelle is. Oh, in case you didn't know, Guido Westerwelle, who chair the Free Democratic Party (FDP) of Germany, is the new foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany. (Those are the equivalent posts in Germany to being vice president or Secretary of State in the U.S.) And Westerwelle really is gay.
What's my point? Andrew E. Mathis
My point is quite simply this: While Germany (a country which, by the way, killed thousands of gay and lesbian citizens during the Third Reich) gives 14.6% of the popular vote to a candidate for chancellor who is openly gay, politicians in the United States continue to press for idiotic measures, such as amending the Constitution to forbid gay marriage, passing "protection of marriage" laws designed to prevent lesbian and gay Americans from ever being able to marry, and, of course, among the evangelicals, blaming gay and lesbian Americans for all the ills of the world.
Will we ever get to a point where what a man or woman does with another consenting adult behind closed doors doesn't matter in the political sphere? Gay politicians have to live closeted lives to win election, with rare exceptions like Barney Frank. That's a tragedy and it is compounded by these gay Americans passing anti-gay legislation as a way to throw off the dogs, so to speak. Think of legislations supported by Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, for instance.
Enough if enough. Leave people alone as long as they don't hurt anyone else. If they do, then treat them with the same due process as you would any other American, regardless of sexual orientation. To do otherwise is to be un-American in the most terribly way.
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