Maureen Dowd frequently gets on my nerves, but I love this column.
There is a lot of truth and things to think.
And it’s fun….
Click the link to the full article for a really good reading experience…
Jimmy Carter is putting the out in outspokenness.
In an interview with bigthink.com, the former president was asked, “Is the country ready for a gay president?”
Even as John McCain and other ossified Republicans were staging last-minute maneuvers to torpedo the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, the 86-year-old Carter was envisioning a grander civil rights victory.
“I would say that the answer is yes,” he said. “I don’t know about the next election, but I think in the near future.”
The news that Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer will smooch in an upcoming movie about J. Edgar Hoover and his aide Clyde Tolson — buried near each other in the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill — is a reminder of an “Advise and Consent” Washington where being a closeted gay official made you vulnerable to blackmail.
Others feel we’re not ready for a gay president, citing the fear and loathing unleashed by the election of the first black president. “Can you imagine how much a gay president would have to overcompensate to please the macho ninnies who control our national debate?” Bill Maher told me. “Women like Hillary have to do it, Obama had to do it because he’s black and liberal, but a gay president? He’d have to nuke something the first week.”
Link to Full Article: A Gay Commander in Chief – Ready or Not? – NYTimes.com.
Lost in the 21st Century 
Advise and Consent is a great (groundbreaking) film that discussed the topic of homosexuality briefly. Finally a movie to blow the doors off J. Edgar Hoover’s closet. Visited his grave. I’d Heard that he and Clyde Tolson were buried together, as you stated, that is not the case, they are about 50 feet apart. In spite of old farts like McCain, the culture is moving ahead slowly accepting people’s orientation. We’re still in the Dark Ages compared to Europe and Canada though.
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