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It gets better, almost entire Massachusetts congressional delegation says
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I have to wonder about the size of Scott Brown's heart
Really, Scott? You -- who certainly made a Very Big Admission about being bullied and abused as a kid -- can't get behind an effort by your colleagues to support and encourage kids who are different from their peers because of who they are? Is it because they're all Democrats? Or is it simply because you lack kindness towards anyone who's different from you?
But MOM...
I'm not gay, I'm trade!
Whatever Scotty.
nice
bagly.... I think that describes most of the folks in the video. But good for them just the same.
I'm skeptical of straight
I'm skeptical of straight folks jumping on this bandwagon. Wasn't the point of this for gay people to get out there as an example to gay kids who might be despairing about their life as an example that "it gets better": that being gay isn't a sentence to a lifetime of pain and misery. How does having straight folks say "it gets better" convey that message?
Dear Anon
Dear Anon:
It stopped being about that about three weeks after the first video was posted. Now it's a book, a commercial, and no doubt, a TV movie of the week.
totally agree
....and am wondering when someone will start posting videos telling the bullies to knock it off, instead of just asking the victims to deal with it.
It's become a few things, I think
I dunno, I kind of like the idea of straight allies putting themselves out there and letting queer kids know that there are straight people who are decent enough to take an active stance that treating people badly is wrong. This could be a big deal for kids who pretty much only encounter homophobia during an average day.
Indeed
Well said.
I'm skeptical also
That's exactly what it is. A bandwagon. I seriously doubt gay youth can relate to these aging politicians any more than any other kind of youth can. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Brown missed an opportunity there
Considering that former male model Brown almost certainly worked with plenty of gay men in his day, it seems a shame that he passed on an opportunity to show the maverick streak he campaigned so heavily on in Massachusetts. Ducking this one sure looks like pandering to the homophobes in the GOP.
Fake news
I don't see Scott Brown calling a press conference to trash gays, so I'm not calling foul on him. Inaction is not trashing, although he did bungle a chance to look cool to people who aren't in his corner.
Come on, people. Let's stay focused on real problems. We're 14 trillion in the hole and the financial world is about to call us out on our crap on the world stage.
Because that's what you want from an elected official...
a complete inability to multitask. Inaction is below his pay grade.
Shocked
And they say you somehow missed out on public office. Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
You're doing a heckuva job Brownie!
It Will Get Worse for you in about 15 months.
Brown's staff said he agrees
Brown's staff said he agrees with the sentiments of the message but will not associate with the campaign's founder, who made vile sexual remarks about Brown. The founder, Dan Savage, was also heard saying "I wish all (Congressional) Republicans were fucking dead" (he apologized later; imagine if he had said "blacks", "gays", "Democrats", etc. instead...? Hate speech.)
For the record Brown voted to support the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Brown may be portrayed by the Left as being hardcore Republican; hardcore conservatives feel he's anything but, calling him Republican in Name Only. In MA he is about as conservative a Senator--fiscally, etc.-- as we will ever get.