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From "Quotelines" in The Windy City Times
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“Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush’s re-election playbook. Rule number one in the ‘Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure’ is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It’s the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger’s promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California’s LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature. ... Traditionally, states have decided how best to achieve equality for all of their families. Sadly, now that Californians—through their duly elected state legislature—have made their decision, Governor Schwarzenegger and his right-wing allies are thwarting their will for electoral gain.” — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, in a Sept. 23 statement.

“They [ conservative Christians ] hate us. They really hate us. They are honestly fearful that if the world isn’t a hostile place for gays and lesbians, their children who are gay will come out. This is all about Alan Keyes, for example, preferring Maya Keyes being closeted and miserable and ‘right with God’ than Maya getting it into her head that she can live a full, ethical, open and out life as a lesbian.” — Syndicated gay columnist Dan Savage to The Advocate, Sept. 27.

“You look at gay people and all studies show we drink more, we smoke more, we do more recreational drugs. Gay people are more likely to take extreme ill-advised sexual risks. There’s a certain self-destructive streak that I don’t think has anything to do with homosexuality per se, but has everything to do with the pain that gets wedged into your soul when you internalize the bad things you are told about being gay and punish yourself all your life. I would add voting Republican when you’re gay to that list, along with doing crystal meth and having sex with 40 guys in one weekend. They’re both dumbass, self-destructive things to do. A certain number of people are stupid enough to off themselves.” — Syndicated writer Dan Savage to CampusProgress. org, Aug. 26.

“Cities that matter went for Kerry. I don’t feel estranged from my country. I don’t live in the United States of America; I live uptown in Island America. For gays and lesbians it’s not a contiguous land mass that stretches from sea to shining sea—it’s a chain of islands—it’s Indonesia. It’s an archipelago. You can hop from the island of Chicago or the island of New York or the island of San Francisco or the island of Seattle, but there’s a lot of places where you just can’t go. Just like there are a lot of places in America where it’s not great to be black.” — Syndicated writer Dan Savage to CampusProgress. org, Aug. 26.



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