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WaPo Story Honoring House for LGBT Teens Has Zero Space for Disagreement

Started by Shana A, May 24, 2011, 09:07:21 AM

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May 24, 2011, 09:07:21 AM
WaPo Story Honoring House for LGBT Teens Has Zero Space for Disagreement

By Tim Graham | May 23, 2011 | 22:39

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/05/23/wapo-story-honoring-house-lgbt-teens-has-zero-space-disagreement

You know you're reading the liberal Washington Post when a story rejoices in the D.C. government offering "a measure of freedom she has never had" to "slip on a flower-print blouse and shave her face." The place is Wanda Alston House, named after a lesbian activist staffer of NOW and the Human Rights Campaign who was stabbed to death in 2005.

The top story in Sunday's Metro section was headlined: "A Haven from the Streets: For lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths, who face a higher risk of becoming homeless, D.C.'s Wanda Alston House offers refuge where they don't have to fear being themselves." Reporter Theresa Vargas was typically all sympathy and zero skepticism for the politically correct cause:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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