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How obnoxious can U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) be? In a guest opinion published today in Bay Windows, a Massachusetts LGBT newspaper, Brown tells us that
I don’t come before you with a checklist of items promising that I will be an advocate for you on each and every one of them. My opponent has already started down that road, promising to support everyone’s pet project. That’s not the way I have ever operated. [snip]I believe all people should be treated with dignity and respect. I recognize the liberty of every citizen to live as they choose, and it is from this diversity that we derive our strength as a nation. We are Americans first and must work together to fix our country’s real economic problems.
So apparently working to pass ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) to ensure the basic civil right to not be fired from your job because you are or are perceived to be trans or gay is just someone’s “pet project”. It’s not a “real economic problem”. Getting the federal government to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and finally recognize same-sex civil marriages just like it recognizes every other civil marriage legally enacted under state law is a “pet project”.
Does he really think that dumping this insulting garbage in an LGBT newspaper will win him votes? You have got to be kidding me.
Update: The commenters over at Bay Windows are summing it up best (H/T David):
“I hope that the sole extent of your interaction with the LGBT community in MA does not begin and end with a guest opinion; that would seem a bit hollow.”
“Good to know Senator Brown views my right to marry as a “pet project.”"
“So the senator promises to create jobs… that we can then be legally fired from in most states just for being who we are. No thanks.”
“Marriage is a major economic issue for LGBT people…not a “pet project.”"
Cross-posted at Blue Mass Group.
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Wow. He’s not trying huh? Seriously, our issues are “pet projects?”
We have a candiate that WILL go on record with her vote on ENDA, UAFA, Respect for Marriage Act and the whole other cornucopia of good stuff the LGBT community would like to get out of the Senate.
Thanks for playing, handsome, but you’re the weakest link. Goodbye!
Then, NO SOUP FOR YOU! And no votes for you either.
It will get him GOProud votes and LCR votes.
Check out the pro-brown astroturfer. The identical IP addresses are kinda obvious. Oops!
If spamming the comments on Internet sites is part of someone’s job: you’d think they could learn to use spellcheck, huh?
Oh weight. Those err jest the kind off errors witch spellcheckers Kant catch.
Dns Toolbox tell me this IP is a Comcast Business ip address. Anyone know how to find out whose business?
173-162-235-46-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net.
I spent most of 2011 trying to get Scott Brown to answer this one question about the impacts of DOMA (Defense-of-Marriage Act) upon his constituents:
He always chose option B. His staff confirmed that he wants to ensure that other states and the federal government can continue discriminating against all same-gender couples in 9 states today (CT, DC, IA, MA, MD, NH, NY, VT, WA) and in all future same-gender marriage states.
The only time that Scott Brown votes for an LGBT-positive measure is when his own vote makes no difference at all, because then he tells constituents that he “delivered” and tells his Republican animal trainers the excuse that “it would have happened anyway.” But whenever his position does matter, he works against LGBT people everywhere.
Scott Brown refuses to sponsor or vote for bills that protect his constituents from DOMA-related discrimination. He admits that he considers equality for LGBT people as a trivial “pet project” of no political value. He claims that ending discrimination conflicts with creating jobs, and that’s why he can’t possibly do both at the same time.
Any elected official who can’t oppose discrimination and create jobs at the same time is either un-skilled, or else dishonest (or perhaps both).
It’s public knowledge that Scott Brown is owned and funded by Wall Street and big oil; what’s less well known is that NOM (National Organization for Marriage) works on his campaigns, because they share the same goal: continue state and federal discrimination against LGBT people everywhere via DOMA.