DoubtingThomasP's Comments (46)

“Exactly how thick is your skull? They are BOTH parents. When they entered into a civil union and then had a child together, that made them both parents. In a heterosexual marriage, the father doesn't adopt his child if a sperm donor is used. He is presumed to be the parent. Same here.”

“While I don't disagree with most of what you said, I don't feel we are being held hostage by a mentally ill young man. We are being held hostage by an organization that feeds on young men like this. An organization whose leaders are too cowardly to do the dirty work themselves, so they prey on impressionable (and often unbalanced) young people to carry out their hatred.”

“Thank you. Your response gives me hope that things will change - - hopefully in my lifetime.”

“uhhh . . . I beg to differ. Marriage is NOT useless. As a gay man, I was unable to marry my HIV positive partner. Therefore, he was unable to benefit from my health insurance policy. He remained uniinsurable until his death. Additionally, he had immigrated to this country (legally) but had let his status slip (granted, that was foolish on his part). We fought a six year depotation battle with the Department of Justice to allow him to stay. We also had to set up different power of attorney agreements to cover medical decisions, financial decisons, and even who was able to claim the body after his death. All of that could have been prevented had I been allowed to marry him. So please, spare me your "marriage is useless" language.”

“As someone who divides my year between Mexico and the U.S., I can tell you that I feel more homophobia in Chicago than I do in Mexico City. Americans have a distorted view of Mexico, as well as Mexican Catholicism. There is a strong anti-clerical sentiment that runs throughout Mexican history.”

“"Why are Mexicans exempt from this?" Do your homework, lakesideboy, Mexicans make up approximately 55% of the illegal immigrants in this country. I am SICK TO DEATH of everyone laying this problem at the feet of Mexicans. It's not fair, and more importantly, it's not accurate.”

“Lieberman is no longer a Democrat. He does not deserve to caucus with them. Time for Reid to play hardball and strip him of his chairmanship of Homeland Security. Make him irrelevant.”

“I guess the "I only was following orders" defense never goes out of fashion. We are using this defense right now in this country to protect the Guantanamo torturers.”

“And don't forget Medicare now gets stuck with the high risk 55-64 age group that private insurance shuns - - even more profits for private insurers.”

“You sound like a good friend. I hope your friend realizes how lucky he is to have you in his life.”

“Still an lDlOT . . .”

“love, love, LOVE your response. If you ever do decide to get married, I will marry you! (well, probably not since I'm a gay man and you're a lesbian).”

“Sorry, gotborked, but you're an lDlOT. You give absolutely no reason to back up your opinion as to why gay people should not marry, other than that there are "fundamental differences between genders." There are differences between the genders, but what does that have to do with denying two people who love each other the opportunity to marry? There are a multitude of issues that confront gay couples. They range from adoption, immigration, inheritance, pension benefits, social security benefits, the ability to make medical decisions for their partner, the ability to even visit their partner in a hospital. All of these things that heterosexual Americns take for granted are denied to gay and lesbian Americans. And because of perceived "gender differences," I guess it's OK to screw over a small segment of the population. At least have the honesty to state that you simply don't like gay people instead of hiding behind some vague theory of gender differences.”

“Time for Reid to play a little hardball. If Joe votes for the filibuster, he loses his chairmanship, plain and simple. He cannot have it both ways where he's basically a Republican, but then gets to side with the Democrats in order to have that plum chairmanship.”

“"themselfs"? "droping"? You must be part of that uneducated (and growing) part of the US. You know, the part that mocks science and achievement. The part that believes the earth is 6000 years old and that man walked the earth with dinosaurs.”

“Ugh. TENETS.”

“Ugh. Unless they are paying rent, Christianity doesn't have any "tenants." It's TENETS (also note the proper use of it's / its).”

“When Catholics engage in political activities to deny other Americans their Constitutionally protected rights (as they are currently doing in Maine), they richly deserve to be bashed. BTW, I'm Italian-American, a former Catholic, and gay. I finally stopped giving the church any respect when Pope John Paul II issued his papal bull referring to gays and lesbians as "intrinsically evil." I agree with you about the Italian-American bigotry. But you can easily put a stop to it any time it comes up. I don't tolerate those comments any more than I do homophobia.”

“Roland Burris is a sleazy politician, particularly with how he's conducted himself over his Senate appointment. I'm very pleasantly surprised that he's showing some backbone in this instance. Good for him. Perhaps Blagojevich's appointment will end up doing the people of Illinois (and the nation) some good after all.”

“What does it matter if we "lose the best friend (we) have had in the WH . . . ever" if that friend doesn't deliver for our community? Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to have an Obama presidency. His decency, fairness and inclusiveness go a long way, especially after the eight previous years. But I don't feel that his presidency would be weakened by fighting for our rights. The political class is way behind the curve in terms of gay rights. The vast majority of the population wants to end DADT. He would be spending very little political capital on that issue. Marriage equality is more of a stretch, but Obama has the ability to frame the issue as one of equal protection. He, and everyone one else in the Democratic Party leadership should be doing that. And we should continue to demand it.”

“. . . and what irritates me is people like you who make apologies and excuses. Obama's speech was moving and heartfelt. It made me believe in him again. BUT . . . as he said in nis speech, he understands our frustration and also expects us in the LGBT community to hold his feet to the fire. We have an obligation as a community, not only to ourselves, but to future generations, to stand up and demand equal participation as full citizens of this nation. Obama can (and should) do more as leader of the Democratic party. Tonight was a very good beginning.”

“uhhh . . . Theodore Roosevelt. Read the article.”

“What if you flipped the situation? Let's say the school was REQUIRING a student to cross dress. Would you recommend that the student "compromise" in order to get an education? That student could "always dress the way he likes when he's out of school." Of course you wouldn't support such a policy - - no one would. Jonathan Escobar should not have to compromise to accommodate a ridiculous school. Period.”

“uhhh . . . how is it "a complete disruption of the educational process" in high school but is somehow magically non-disruptive when that same student attends college? Jonathan Escobar has every right to attend school as long as his clothes comply with school guidelines. If a female student can wear those clothes with no problems, then so should he.”

“Well, Jane Adams (whoever she is) just bought herself a ton of negative publicity. As did the restaurant. I hope this story continues to receive more attention. Why is it that the "little people" always have to suffer because the entitled class got caught? Skanky behavior on the part of the actress and the restaurant.”