Outrage Page #9

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Reporter #4:

This is video of Neve

in the hospital

just a few days after

he was brutally attacked.

He spent several days

in Strong Hospital

with a fractured skull,

nose, upper jaw and eye socket.

Reporter #5:

On May 29, the 18-year-old

victim's body

is discovered in the woods

behind his family's

Woodlawn home.

Police say Steven Parrish

had joined a Bloods gang

and was killed by two

members of his own group.

Court documents say

it's because they thought

he was gay.

That was four days

before his graduation from

Randallstown High School.

Reporter #6:

Students marched

in Oxnard, California,

in memory of

Lawrence "Larry" King,

a 15-year-old student

police say was gunned down

by a classmate

because he was openly gay.

14-year-old Brandon McInerney

allegedly shot King

in the head in the school's

computer lab.

- ( weeping )

- It's over.

King was pronounced brain-dead

at a local hospital.

His body was kept alive

so his organs could

be donated.

Today I call upon

the Congress to promptly pass

and to send to the states

for ratification

an amendment

to our Constitution

defining and protecting

marriage as the union

of a man and woman

as husband and wife.

DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH

THE 2004 STRATEGY

AROUND ANTI-GAY ELEMENTS

OF THE BUSH CAMPAIGN,

YOU WILL FIND A CADRE

OF GAY PEOPLE.

THE 2004 ELECTION

WAS A VERY ANTI-GAY--

YOU KNOW, IT WAS A PARTY.

AND KEN MEHLMAN:

WAS LIKE THE M.C.

Lifestyle issues.

Gay marriage.

Is that an issue

in this campaign?

I think it's an issue

in many races.

Byrne:

IT WAS HARD BECAUSE THERE

WASN'T THE KIND OF EVIDENCE

WITH KEN MEHLMAN THA THERE WAS WITH OTHER PEOPLE,

BUT IT WAS RELATIVELY KNOWN,

AND NOBODY WOULD EVEN ASK.

A lot of the chiefs

of staff,

the people who really run

the underpinnings

of the Republican party

are gay.

I don't want to mention names,

but I will Friday night.

You will Friday night?

Well, there's a couple

of big people who I think

everyone in Washington knows

- who run the--

- You will name them?

Well, I wouldn't be

the first.

I'd get sued

if I was the first.

Ken Mehlman,

there's one I think

people have talked about.

I don't think

he's denied it when

people have suggested it.

- He doesn't say--

- I'm walking around

in a fog.

- Come on.

- Ken Mehlman?

I never heard that.

- But the question is--

- Maybe you don't go to

the same bathhouse I do.

I'd get sued if I was

the first.

Maybe you don't go to

the same bathhouse I do.

Why would

someone who is gay

take public

anti-gay positions?

Why would you do that?

Because, Larry,

hating yourself is

the greatest love of all.

KEN MEHLMAN WAS THE GUY

THAT RAN THE CAMPAIGN

THAT WAS SENDING OU THESE FLIERS,

THAT WAS BAITING PEOPLE,

THAT WAS--

PARTICULARLY IN OHIO AND ALL

THESE BATTLEGROUND STATES

WHERE IT WAS ALL ABOU "LET'S GET PEOPLE

TO VOTE FOR BUSH

BY THIS GAY THING"

LED BY THE GAY GUY!

AND FUNDED:

BY THE GAY GUY!

AND POLITICALLY DIRECTED

BY THE GAY GUY!

YOU KNOW?

AND I THINK PEOPLE

DESERVE TO KNOW THAT.

Sheridan:

I THINK MARY CHENEY'S

OUTING WAS EFFECTIVE.

Rosen:

OH, I'M APPALLED

BY THE CHENEYS.

I FELT EXTREMELY

DISHEARTENED...

THAT THEY WERE AS SUPPORTIVE

OF THE ANTI-GAY POLICIES

AS THEY WERE.

WE ALWAYS THOUGH WE HAD SOME PROTECTION

BECAUSE OF THE VICE

PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER.

If your father was

not the vice president,

and you were a gay woman

in a gay relationship

in the United States

in 2004, 2000,

- would you have

voted for this ticket?

- Yes, I would have.

Catania:

IF SHE WERE STRIPPED

OF HER FATHER'S TITLE,

SHE WOULD BE SUBJECTED

TO THE SAME GRATUITOUS

DISCRIMINATION:

THAT AFFECTS SO MANY

GAYS AND LESBIANS

IN THIS COUNTRY.

SHE IS PROTECTED

BY HER POSITION:

AND HER MONEY.

- And you have a partner.

- I do.

"Gay couples cannot file

jointly for federal taxes."

Is that true?

- That is true.

- And your feelings

about that?

I think it's wrong.

I think they should

be able to.

Did you talk to your

father about this?

We have many conversations

about different issues.

Maybe that's

the point.

I'm wondering

if people would rather

you had talked about it

during the campaign

as opposed to after

the campaign and putting

it in the book.

Would it have

been more effective

to talk about it then?

- ( audience applauding )

- I honestly don't think

it would have been.

I'M COMPLETELY

UNIMPRESSED:

THAT SHE DOESN'T AGREE

WITH PRESIDENT BUSH

OR HER FATHER DICK CHENEY,

WHEN IN FACT SHE WORKED,

SHE WAS A PAID OPERATIVE

TO GET THEM ELECTED

AND THEN RE-ELECTED.

MARY CHENEY'S JOB

BEFORE HER FATHER RAN

FOR PRESIDEN WAS TO BE THE GAY AND LESBIAN

LIAISON FOR COORS BEER.

Birch:

SHE MADE HER LIVING

FIGURING OU HOW TO DISSEC THE GAY COMMUNITY

INTO NICHE MARKETS

AND SELL THEM COORS BEER.

BUT SHE WASN' INQUISITIVE ENOUGH

AND DIDN'T CARE ENOUGH

TO DISSEC THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

AND THE ELITE:

OF THAT PARTY:

TO FIGURE OUT HOW

TO GET BASIC RIGHTS PASSED.

THERE IS PROBABLY NO A BETTER EXAMPLE

OF SOMEONE WHO IS

SO STEEPED:

IN HYPOCRISY.

SHE COULD HAVE MADE

A HUGE DIFFERENCE

AND DID NOT.

Gurley:

I GOT A CALL FROM

A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE

WHO TOLD ME THERE WAS

A GAY ACTIVIS WHO WAS GOING

TO START A BLOG:

AND WAS GONNA STAR OUTING REPUBLICANS.

DURING THIS TIME, I WAS

THE NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR

OF THE REPUBLICAN

NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

ONE OF THE BIG:

RESPONSIBILITIES THAT I HAD

WAS HELPING TO OVERSEE

A DIRECT-MAIL PROGRAM.

I WAS THE FIRST ONE

TO GET A PAMPHLE FROM AN ARKANSAS

READER OF MY BLOG

THAT SAID THE DEMOCRATS

WERE GONNA BAN THEIR BIBLE

AND TURN STATES INTO

BASTIONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY.

AND THEY WERE SENDING

THIS TO CHURCH PEW ROSTERS

AROUND THE COUNTRY.

Rogers:

IT WAS SENT BY THE REPUBLICAN

NATIONAL COMMITTEE

AND THEY DIDN' EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT!

DAN GURLEY WHO HAD

ULTIMATE AUTHORITY

OVER THESE UNBELIEVABLE FLIERS,

HE HAD A PROFILE ON GAY.COM

THAT WAS STASHED FULL

OF A BUNCH OF HIS PICTURES.

AND HE WAS SEEKING

MULTIPLE PARTNERS FOR SEX.

I GOT A CALL FROM HIM

AT HOME ONE SUNDAY NIGH SAYING, "YOU'RE THE ONE.

YOU'RE GONNA BE NEXT."

HE POINTEDLY ASKED ME

IF I WAS A GAY MAN.

AND I TOLD HIM THAT I WAS.

UH, HE...

IMMEDIATELY:

THEN STARTED TO...

TO QUESTION ME ABOU DID I NOT HAVE A CONSCIENCE?

DID I NOT FEEL:

SOME SORT OF REMORSE

OR REGRET FOR WORKING

FOR A POLITICAL PARTY,

WORKING TO HELP ELEC A PRESIDEN THAT DID NOT SUPPOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR GAY AMERICANS?

I BASICALLY JUST SAID,

YOU KNOW,

"YOU DO WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE

YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO DO."

I WAS IN LINE FOR

A PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT,

IN ALL LIKELIHOOD

IN SOME POLICY ROLE SOMEWHERE.

BUT ONCE ROGERS:

DID THIS POSTING ABOUT ME

THAT OPPORTUNITY

EVAPORATED.

Rogers:

RECENTLY I GET AN EMAIL--

"DAN GURLEY'S

ON THE BOARD:

OF NORTH CAROLINA EQUALITY."

I'M LIKE, "WHAT?"

I WENT TO THE WEBSITE,

I LOOKED IT ABOUT,

AND I'M LIKE,

"THIS IS HOT.

THIS IS WHY:

I STARTED BLOGACTIVE."

HE'S AN OUT GAY MAN

AND HE'S PROUD

AND HE'S ON THE BOARD

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