Kerry's gay ploy backfires

[DaveSZ]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/243183p-208345c.html

Kerry's gay ploy backfires

The third Bush-Kerry debate may not change the outcome of the presidential election in November. But it may well be remembered as a milestone in the struggle for gay equality and acceptance. Give the credit for that to John Kerry.

Toward the end of the debate, moderator Bob Schieffer asked both candidates if they believed homosexuality was a choice. President Bush said he didn't know. Kerry said that it is inborn, and cited an authority on the subject. "I think if you talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she'll say she is being who she was, she's being who she was born as," he said.

Why Cheney's daughter? Kerry knows lots of famous people who believe - as he says Mary Cheney believes - that they were born gay. He could have cited Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank or New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. Both are public men who could offer personal testimony about the inborn nature of homosexuality.

But that wasn't the point Kerry wanted to make. He was crying Mary to send a message to presumably homophobic Christian voters: Just in case you hadn't heard, the vice president harbors a practicing lesbian in the bosom of his family.

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[ogradda]

1. a point that has already been made

about a jillion gillion times <yawn>

[tuvor]

2. I'm really tired and ready for bed, but can't help saying that

the writer seems to suffer from 20/20 hindsight syndrome.

Assuming his assumptions are bang-on.

No one's going to change their vote, or leave the ranks of the stupid undecideds, over this "issue".

Good night, America!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Yeah right...

I think most people can see through the RW bullshit that they really couldn't give a flying fark about Mary Cheney and are only trying to attack JK after he clobbered Bush in the debates.