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Title: President Clinton Sleeps With The Wrong People (Again)
Post by: Shana A on February 14, 2009, 06:29:33 PM
Post by: Shana A on February 14, 2009, 06:29:33 PM
President Clinton Sleeps With The Wrong People (Again)
Filed by: Jeremy Bishop
February 14, 2009 5:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/president_clinton_sleeps_with_the_wrong.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/president_clinton_sleeps_with_the_wrong.php)
LGBT-Rights Pioneer, Cleve Jones recently posted to The Huffington Post an article entitled, billclinton_2.jpg"What Would Harvey Milk Say About President Clinton's Speech at the Manchester Hyatt?"
In it, Jones states,
"This Sunday, President Clinton is scheduled to give a paid speech at the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego to the annual convention of a major political action committee, the International Franchise Association.
To give this speech, President Clinton will have to violate a union boycott and labor dispute - the workers at the hotel lack job security and the housekeepers face onerous workloads. He will also offend gay and lesbian Americans, including myself - the owner of the hotel, Doug Manchester, contributed $125,000 in early seed money to the Proposition 8 campaign. President Clinton should move this speech."
Time is short- President Clinton's speech is this Sunday. You can make a difference and take action. Take a moment and visit the Clinton Foundation and ask President Clinton to move his speech to another hotel, preferably one that doesn't have a record of virulent anti-gay and anti-union organizing. Please email the foundation today and let them know you expect more out of President Clinton.
Filed by: Jeremy Bishop
February 14, 2009 5:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/president_clinton_sleeps_with_the_wrong.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/president_clinton_sleeps_with_the_wrong.php)
LGBT-Rights Pioneer, Cleve Jones recently posted to The Huffington Post an article entitled, billclinton_2.jpg"What Would Harvey Milk Say About President Clinton's Speech at the Manchester Hyatt?"
In it, Jones states,
"This Sunday, President Clinton is scheduled to give a paid speech at the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego to the annual convention of a major political action committee, the International Franchise Association.
To give this speech, President Clinton will have to violate a union boycott and labor dispute - the workers at the hotel lack job security and the housekeepers face onerous workloads. He will also offend gay and lesbian Americans, including myself - the owner of the hotel, Doug Manchester, contributed $125,000 in early seed money to the Proposition 8 campaign. President Clinton should move this speech."
Time is short- President Clinton's speech is this Sunday. You can make a difference and take action. Take a moment and visit the Clinton Foundation and ask President Clinton to move his speech to another hotel, preferably one that doesn't have a record of virulent anti-gay and anti-union organizing. Please email the foundation today and let them know you expect more out of President Clinton.
Title: Re: President Clinton Sleeps With The Wrong People (Again)
Post by: NicholeW. on February 14, 2009, 08:08:45 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on February 14, 2009, 08:08:45 PM
Ya know, it might be nice to see marriage extended to gay males and lesbians. But it would super-good if hotel workers found a way to make a decent living, especially housekeepers.
I don't see the equivalence between livng wages and allowing gay folk to marry. One would be nice the other may be a matter of life and death.
For one and as a lesbian who is with someone I cannot marry due to the ban on two owmen marrying I'd love to see the gay community start taking a reasoned look at the matter. Perhaps taking a bit of advice from Barney Frank and seeing that at this time politically their cause is not ready for prime time and cannot win in more than about 10% of USA as a whole.
Education is the key -- not more diatribes against ex-presidents, boycotting churches, businesses and people of color in the interest of having more weddings with state-sponsored unions.
The issue pales in importance with pretty much everything else. Is their any real-world congruence between lack of decent wages and marriage rights for less than 10% of us?
Nichole
I don't see the equivalence between livng wages and allowing gay folk to marry. One would be nice the other may be a matter of life and death.
For one and as a lesbian who is with someone I cannot marry due to the ban on two owmen marrying I'd love to see the gay community start taking a reasoned look at the matter. Perhaps taking a bit of advice from Barney Frank and seeing that at this time politically their cause is not ready for prime time and cannot win in more than about 10% of USA as a whole.
Education is the key -- not more diatribes against ex-presidents, boycotting churches, businesses and people of color in the interest of having more weddings with state-sponsored unions.
The issue pales in importance with pretty much everything else. Is their any real-world congruence between lack of decent wages and marriage rights for less than 10% of us?
Nichole