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

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.

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