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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Senators Tell Gay Kids: 'It Gets Better'
Five days after its state legislature made New York the largest of six states to legalize gay marriage, 13 Democratic Senators shared their contribution to It Gets Better, the award-winning video archive project launched almost one year ago in an effort to give hope to lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered kids facing harassment and considering suicide.
With high production values and sweeping background music similar to the It Gets Better contributions from Google and Apple, the black and white video alternates clips of each senator's words of comfort and encouragement. But beyond the language of film making — the angles, edits and soundtrack chosen to make the viewer weepy — consider what this video means.
Top U.S. politicians state clearly and without artifice: It is wrong to treat minorities like third class citizens and we are working to give the gay community its full civil rights.
Unveiled Wednesday at a Capitol press conference in Washington DC, the 5-minute videohighlights the senators' work on gay rights issues, including the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal and "The Respect for Marriage Act," which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and provide to gay couples the federal tax benefits currently available to married couples.
Participating senators include Chris Coons (DE), Mark Udall (CO), Ron Wyden (OR), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sherrod Brown (OH), Maria Cantwell (WA), Dick Durbin (IL), Al Franken (MN), Dianne Feinstein (CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Charles Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
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9 comments:
Al Franken is a senator? omg
The puppet Senators are doing what the elite want for America - stop the reproduction of poor people!
What better way than to teach all of us to engage in abnormal sex for pleasure?
Slick Willy helped get it going with the blow job so that now all the young kids think blow jobs are "not sex" - but obviously very pleasurable. Anything to convince us to engage in sex for reasons other than procreation.
There is a "gay agenda" in America and its purpose is to destroy the Family and stop us from having babies.
Anons - You are all f-ing crazy. Calm down.
Paranoid much?
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lol
You think we will all be gay one day I guess? Nobody will have kids because we will all be gays?
Crazy. . .just crazy. :o) lol
My heart goes out to all kids that are bullied. But I have to ask: When will fat kids, band geeks, smelly kids, kid with the odd religion who doesn't say the pledge, 90 pound weaklings, etc... get their commercials?
Do we really think kids in the above small list don't get harmed by bullying? Do we believe that some of them don't commit suicide? Did anyone pay attention to how it came out that the Columbine murderers were picked on relentlessly for years before they shamelessly and indefensibly took up arms against their fellow students? The point is, a lot of kids get picked on without mercy. I think this program of "it gets better" should be one that is sent to all of the outsiders.
8:01 PM
How in the heck can you bring clinton into this? lol
There is a "gay agenda" in America and its purpose is to destroy the Family and stop us from having babies
Yup, that's it. Then soon they will die off and nobody will be left. What would you suggest then, test tube babies? lol
oh no. they arent shoving it our faces. heterophobes are mentally ill and need help!
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