How History Gets Perverted
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/how-history-gets-perverted/The corporate media is willingly propagating the Tim Pawlenty re-creation interview.
Now, its the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Pawlenty was lauded by gay rights activists in 1993, when as a freshman Republican legislator, he supported adding sexual orientation to categories of employment, housing and other discrimination prohibited by state law. He has since said he regrets that vote, a position he reiterated to Newsweek's Howard Fineman.
He went on to spell out a change he wants made in the statute: It should not outlaw discrimination against "things like cross-dressing, and a variety of other people involved in behaviors that weren't based on sexual orientation, just a preference for the way they dressed and behaved." He continued: "If you are a third-grade teacher and you are a man and you show up on Monday as Mr. Johnson and you show up on Tuesday as Mrs. Johnson, that is a little confusing to the kids. So I don't like that."
In fact, there's no mention of cross-dressing in the definition of sexual orientation as it pertains to the state's Human Rights Act.
