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May 11, 2004
If you haven't seen the Log Cabin Republican's television ad campaign featuring Vice President Dick Cheney, you really owe it to yourself to do so. The television ad features a reasoned arguement by Cheney made in the 2000 Presidential elections that equal marriage rights is a matter for the states and not the federal government.
Starting this week, LCR will be airing the commercial in 6 more states, including that of Federal Marriage Amendment author Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave. In April, Musgrave's own state legislature voted against supporting her effort, sending a clear signal the people of Colorado stand for something better than Musgrave's divisive poltical agenda.
The sense of fairness one gets from Cheney in LCR's television ad is a stark difference from the Cheney we see today flip-flopping on the issue for the sake of dividing our country in time for the 2004 elections. The contrast of the Cheney in 2000 with the Cheney of 2004 demonstrates the Republican party base is far removed from moderate Americans who want to protect the United States Constitution and basic principles of fairness.
Dick Cheney's current opinion on the matter of equal marriage rights is one of politicaly expedient support for a constitutional amendment. It's a shameful political calculation on Cheney's part that illustrates the hollow rhetoric of the Republican party and to what part of America they have chosen to lend their voice.
To Cheney, "family values," "compassion" and being a "uniter, not divider" are meaningless phrases when it comes to making sure his own lesbian daughter is denied basic fairness and equality. Vice President Dick Cheney should be ashamed at how far he's allowed a radical and hateful agenda to make his political career more important than his own daughter and America's founding principles.
This is the challenge our nation faces when deciding which direction we want to go in November 2004. The kind of Republican party Democrats face is a brand that is so determined to win that the lives of family and the fairness they deserve are mere cannon fodder.
Despite this, I'm very proud of those Republicans who face the complicit silence of their moderate Republican colleagues on issues of fairness yet still stand up on basic American principles and challenge their party's lack of leadership and regrettable divisive politics. I'm even more proud of the many new voices that have come to understand the importance of voting in America is 2004.
Gay Republicans launch ad blitz
By Peggy Lowe
Rocky Mountain News
May 11, 2004
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