Spitz-and-Swallows: News came yesterday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer was wiretapped making arrangements for a prostitute in D.C. on Feb. 13th. The day before Valentine's day! Of course, while I don't necessarily think that prostitution between consenting adults is a horrible thing, I'll criticize him for the same critique I gave Sen. Vitter last year: you cannot do in your private life something that is different from what you champion in your public life! I hate hypocracy more than anything in politicians.
Of course of interest is the way that kotaku.com looks at it: this is the same guy that championed against the inclusion of prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto 3. So he's a double, triple hypocrite.
I was excited when the Democratic Governer who was anti-corporate-greed got eleected last year, but only because we were filling the seat with a Democratic one. New York is one of the two states that could get gay marriage through its legislature - along with California, but we all saw what happen when a Republican Governor Schwarzenegger got the bill before his desk - he didn't sign it. (Interesting side note: Gov. Schwarzenegger said that any decision about gay marriage should come through the court system, where it currently has been argued at the Supreme Court level - exactly the opposite argument that Republicans have been making when it came through the court system in other states, saying that it should come through the Legislature....)
So I thought that a Democratic Governer would give us gay marriage in New York, currently one of only three states that I would like to live in in this country. (I would consider moving just to marry my beloved, I feel that strongly about it.) Now we can't villify the Republicans, unfortunately, as being hypocrites in all of their moral hifilutin'.
The silver lining? The Liuetentant Governor, Peterson, is a champion of gays. He would definitely sign gay marriage into law. Awesome.
HIV+ Ban: There was another provision attached to a bill making its way through the Senate to lift the ban on HIV+ tourists. The U.S. is currently only one of 13 countries who ban HIV+ tourists.
Kerns: Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern went on a tirade against homosexuals in a meeting full of supporters. After the video got posted to YouTube, she defended herself openly in the government house, to which her Republican colleagues gave her a standing ovation. Bigots, all of them. Bigots, bigots, bigots!
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