GOP Convention Speaker Compares Gay Families to Hitler

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Thursday September 02, 2004 · 3:11 PM PDT

2004/09/02 · 15:11

I just heard about this on Air America and couldn't believe it. I thought I could not get any angrier, but they know how to top the last outrageous thing they utter.

A quick googling for a link shows the story on the DNC site.

Anti-Gay Extremist Sheri Drew Offers Morning Invocation

Washington, DC - If their line-up of speakers is any indication, there will be no compassion for Gay and Lesbian Americans at this year's Republican National Convention. Sheri Drew, who offered this morning's invocation from the Convention Podium, has said those who support gay and lesbian families are no different from those who supported Adolph Hitler in the years preceding World War II.

When defending her comparison of Gay and Lesbians to Adolph Hitler, Drew simply stated that "it may seem a bit extreme to imply a comparison between the atrocities of Hitler and what is happening in terms of contemporary threats against the family -- but maybe not."

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Sunday August 15, 2004 · 6:01 PM PDT

2004/08/15 · 18:01

I have always asked myself how people interact with radical Bush supporters, because I don't know any and if I did I probably couldn't stand to be in the same room with them.

Years ago, before my first visit to the US, I read in travel guides that you shouldn't talk to Americans about politics. I never understood that because I never had problems doing that with the people I met during my travels. I must have talked to and befriended only those with the same mindset. Of course the internet then showed me the other side of the coin and I was happy not to know anybody who thinks and spews hate like a freeper.

But today I witnessed a first hand account of hate talk when my husband chatted online with his sister in Ohio. I told him to ask her who she is voting for and he didn't like the idea because he doesn't talk politics with his family. But I insisted and he tried to steer their idle chitchat into the directions of politics.

Big mistake.
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Friday May 21, 2004 · 11:24 AM PDT

2004/05/21 · 11:24

In The International Herald Tribune Frank Rich writes about Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911 and the first paragraphs caught my eye, because I saw the footage he describes last year on German TV:

"But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer." - Barbara Bush on "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.

She needn't have worried. Her son wasn't suffering. In one of the several pieces of startling video exhibited for the first time in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," we catch a candid glimpse of President George Bush about 36 hours after his mother's breakfast TV interview - minutes before he makes his own prime-time TV address to take the nation to war in Iraq. He is sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. A makeup woman is doing his face. And Bush is having a high old time. He darts his eyes about and grins, as if he were playing a peek-a-boo game with someone just off-camera. He could be a teenager goofing with his buds to relieve the passing tedium of a haircut.

"In your wildest dreams you couldn't imagine Franklin Roosevelt behaving this way 30 seconds before declaring war, with grave decisions and their consequences at stake," said Moore in an interview before his new documentary's premiere at Cannes last Monday. "But that may be giving him credit for thinking that the decisions were grave."

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