by Geoff Staples

Barack Obama’s “hope” is the new version of Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America.” Like Ronald Reagan, Obama is a charismatic and inspirational speaker. That’s not where the similarity ends.

Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi to make his notorious states’ rights speech and pander to Southern racist bigots during his 1982 election campaign. Obama claims that civil and human rights for gays and lesbians are states’ rights issues and Obama sent the rabidly anti-gay Donny McClurkin to denounce gays and lesbians from the stage of his South Carolina gospel tour.

I don’t believe black evangelicals to be anti-gay bigots, but Obama does, or he wouldn’t have sent McClurkin to do the dirty in South Carolina. All Democrats should be outraged that Obama would insult black evangelicals by assuming them to be bigots.

Obama has attended a racist church for 20 years. He claims that most whites, like his white grandmother, are afraid of blacks. Reverend James Meeks, another Obama spiritual and political mentor, has been cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leading black partner of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund. What are we to make of this? Obama wants us to ignore his close association with hate-mongers and bigots while he ...   more »

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Dallas Voice :: Letters March 28, 2008
Will the conventions be fair?
by Geoff Staples

With the Texas Democratic Party Senate District Conventions being held this weekend (Saturday, March 29), I wanted to alert the community to what happened at the Senate District 23 Democratic convention in 2006.

I am a Democrat because I believe the Democratic Party to be the party of equality, justice, liberty, respect and economic opportunity for all persons. Unfortunately, the 2006 SD 23 convention caused me to doubt this belief.

I was a delegate and a member of the Resolutions Committee. In that committee, we discuss and vote on resolutions covering the gamut of current issues. At the 2006 convention, the Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution calling for universal health care and when it was brought to the floor of the convention, the convention affirmed they did not support universal health care.

Equally appalling, the Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution calling for gay and lesbian families to have equal rights to marriage and the benefits thereof. African-American committee members abused their one-vote majority and block-voted against the resolution while every other person on the committee voted for passage. During the discussion, some of ...   more »

Democrats in the U. S. House of Representatives passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act at 6:20PM EST today. Unfortunately, the version which did not include Gender Identity was not the bill that passed, even though it is believed it could have passed.

Senator Ted Kennedy is the primary sponsor in the Senate and it is expected the bill will pass and go to the president’s desk. Unfortunately, we will get to watch George W. Bush veto civil rights for a group he and the rest of the Repugnant Party despise.

House Republicans attempted to throw single Americans under the bus to indulge their bigotry and contempt for gay and lesbian Americans. The Republicans introduced an amendment that would allow employers to discriminate based on marital status to create an end-around in which employers could refuse to hire gays and lesbians because they are ineligible to marry (or at least, single).

Please puff your chest with pride at you look at the Democratic Heroes and Heroines below. Warning: take some anti-nausea medication before reviewing the Democratic bigots. 

Democratic Heroes and Heroines

Honorable Mention

Democratic Bigots

Cowardly Democratic Bigots

Democratic Heroes and Heroines

Voted No or didn't vote because Gender Identity not included in bill. ...   more »