[Vision2020] Jeb Bush Featured in Gay Marriage Ads
g. crabtree
jampot at adelphia.net
Sun Jun 3 18:26:22 PDT 2007
Ms. Roskovich, To think that within the last 72 hours you expressed the notion that I'm a mite mean spirited and have a little to much time on my hands and yet here we are, handing out the feel goods. I seriously doubt that Ms. Kraut is a homophobe, much less a racist. To be handing out those titles based on your admittedly imperfect understanding of her brief post comes across as a smidge judgmental, don't you think? Or does your crowded schedule and generous spirit demand that you leap to the harshest conclusion possible all in the name of effective time management?
g
----- Original Message -----
From: Ellen Roskovich
To: pkraut at moscow.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Jeb Bush Featured in Gay Marriage Ads
Something must have been lost in the translation, because I had a really hard time trying to understand that. But, to me, it sounded like you're a good bible-thumping homophobe and a tad racist to boot. . . .all cuz God sez so.
Ellen Roskovich
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From: <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Jeb Bush Featured in Gay Marriage Ads
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:31:10 GMT
>You are trying to argue with the state and this is a church issue. The
>church does not want to marry homosexuals because the bible talks about it
>being an no-no. The church also questioned marrying outside of their
>religion and race because the bible suggests it is not a good thing. By
>taking the issue to the church you would actually have to discuss this
>problem with some reality which of course is why it is presented to the
>state. If the church decided to marry outside of race you need to seek the
>answer from churches. There are churches that are willing to marry
>homosexuals also...with some of the same problems that happened when some
>chose to marry outside of race.
>
>
>
>
>
> > >From today's (June 3, 2007) Spokesman Review -
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Jeb Bush featured in gay marriage ads
> > Lesley Clark
> > McClatchy
> > June 3, 2007
> >
> > WASHINGTON - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the poster child for gay
> > marriage?
> >
> > A coalition of civil rights groups that back gay marriage is using
>photos of
> > prominent couples like the former Republican governor and his Mexican-
>born
> > wife, Columba, in an advertising campaign marking the 40th anniversary of
> > Loving v. Virginia, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave interracial
> > couples the right to marry.
> >
> > The groups say they hope to use the couples and the court case to bolster
> > their contention that marriage is a civil right that should know no
>bounds -
> > even for those of the same sex.
> >
> > "We're honoring and celebrating something that just over 40 years ago
>some
> > Americans said was immoral and wrong and could not happen," said Jimmy
> > Creech, the executive director of Faith in America, a gay rights advocacy
> > group that is bankrolling the ad campaign. "We're celebrating the wisdom
> > that prejudice and bigotry was removed from the law books and Americans
>were
> > given the right to marry the person they loved, regardless of race."
> >
> > The "Freedom to Marry" advertising campaign - to be launched Monday -
> > consists of six ads that will run in two Capitol Hill publications, Roll
> > Call and Politico. They feature photos of interracial couples like golfer
> > Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin, and former U.S. Defense Secretary Bill
>Cohen
> > and his wife, Janet Langhart, who have authored a book about their
>marriage,
> > "Love in Black and White." Couples married to someone of a different
> > ethnicity, like the Bushes, are also featured.
> >
> > The ads note that 16 states still banned interracial marriages until the
> > Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law in 1967, finding "the freedom to
> > marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights
>essential
> > to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."
> >
> > "Jeb and Columba Bush couldn't marry today if discrimination were still
>the
> > law of the land," the ad that features the former Florida first couple
> > reads.
> >
> > Bush didn't respond to a request for comment. But John Stemberger, an
> > Orlando attorney who is spearheading a petition drive to put a gay
>marriage
> > ban up for a vote in Florida in 2008, called the ads "a little bit
>silly."
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in
> > Albany, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida, and many other campaigns of
>the
> > Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were
>fighting
> > for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own,
>and
> > I salute their contributions."
> >
> > - Coretta Scott King (March 30, 1998)
> >
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