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On April 17, the White House will host its annual Easter Egg Roll. This year, however, hundreds of gay and lesbian parents and their children intend to be among the 16,000-or-so others who attend the free event.
"We want to give our fellow citizens the opportunity to see us as real families, participating in a great American tradition on the White House lawn, rather than protesting from the sidelines," the Family Pride Coalition, an organizer of this "family visibility action," says on its Web site, www.familypride.org.
The White House is shrugging off the controversy.
"It's an event that has a great tradition and all families are welcome to attend," said Peter Watkins, deputy press secretary to first lady Laura Bush, who is the official overseer of the egg roll.
Predictably, the bitter Neo-Puritans are stewing in their bile and want to discriminate against families that don't look like their own, even if this means demeaning and humiliating young children.
"For crying out loud, at the Easter Egg roll? This is a family event," said an exasperated Traditional Values Coalition executive director Andrea Lafferty, who called it "very distasteful" and inappropriate to politicize the occasion and to use children to do so. "They're trying to cloak themselves in normalcy. It's not normal. The American people overwhelmingly believe it's not normal," Lafferty said.
If anyone should be banned from the event it is the big-haired Lafferty who frequently dresses like a prostitute, even when lobbying on Capitol Hill. She is often unfit to be seen in the presence of children.
8 Comments:
Wise words and choices on behalf of the families and Laura Bush.
posted by Kurt W, at
3/10/2006 10:16 AM
Kurt, just look at how these fundamentalists are behaving. They are now in the unenviable position of setting themselves against mothers and their children. Why? Because the mothers are gay. This is just ugliness. "This is a family event," they shout, as they stomp their feet like frustrated kindergarteners.
Yes, it is, and it may come as news to them, but gay men and women have children, too. Fundamentalists are weird and neurotic. Sorry, but we live in a diverse world and everyone has rights. I really do think these folk would be happy in a Taliban-style country. We gays will keep America with all its freedoms and imperfections.
posted by Chris L., at
3/10/2006 11:29 AM
Why *do* so many of these women look like Debra Harry in Hairspray? They're all hairhoppers with makeup from 'I wanna be a ho'. I'd rather have an easter egg roll with Divine and Edith Massey (the egg lady in the playpen from Pink Flamingos) than with this Lafferty bunch. Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
3/10/2006 1:08 PM
Gary NJ:
Can you imagine Divine leading the roll!
O, if I were POTUS - I'd def want John Water's to stage the event for sure!
Oh, now don't say Lafferty looks like a prostitute. It's tacky. She probably thinks she looks elegant.
posted by Tim, at
3/10/2006 6:31 PM
that's a perfect comeback I will probably forget to use in the future, as I rarely come face to face with such bigots. when someone talks about how gays are so disgusting, etc, I will comment that I am disgusted they look and act like a whore, but I at least grant them the right to do that.
posted by Steve Talbert, at
3/11/2006 12:14 PM
The woman wears leopard skin to a press conference....What a WHORE!!!!
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