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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 07:49 PM
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Jeb Bush the poster child for Gay Marriage?!
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17312193.htm

`Freedom to Marry' civil rights campaign uses photos of Jeb Bush, wife
By Lesley Clark
McClatchy Newspapers

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.


Get 'em!!
LOL!
that is rich!!!
:evilgrin:
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 08:00 PM
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1. hmmm, my prediction
that we would hear nothing of Jeb, until all of the Republican candidates, were picked over and discredited, has been dashed. My prediction was he would be trotted out at the last minute ans the only viable Man For the Job and take the primary nomination. Condi would be relegated to Vice President. They must have let him out of the secret bunker, at presidentin' school, for dummies, tutored by Big Dick. You can see for yourself how well it worked for George. Hmmm, the mother of the 'little brown ones', forges new horizons for people of color. What a legacy. Good for her.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 09:06 PM
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2. Well ........... have you seen his so-called "wife"?!!1
I get points for grammar/punctuation!!1
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 09:10 PM
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3. Columba's a man?!
I guess she's smuggling more than untaxed luxury items through customs...
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 09:23 PM
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4. A stately lady indeed, truly "handsome woman," would one not agree?


I dare venture that Columba had no need of shoulder pads in any of her Parisian tagless couture.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-01-07 09:49 PM
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5. they are the perfect family -
successfully abusing customs laws - forging prescriptions - public intoxication - privelege has its perks.



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