Three quotes to signify yesterday:
From last night’s State of the Union address:
Yet many Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns about the direction of our culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They’re concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage.
– President George W. Bush
From last night’s repeat of The L Word, Season 3, Episode 4:
You’re just the latest reigning vigilantes, self-appointed cultural watchdogs of the moment.
–Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals) to a conservative senator
From the Opening Plenary Session, 13th annual Creating Change conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000:
Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
–Coretta Scott King
Rest in peace, Mrs. King. The civil rights movement, in its broadest sense, has lost a powerful champion.
