President McCain joins "You Can Get Better Campaign" with PSA for Exodus International

[Ian David]

News from The Alternate Timeline

Today, President McCain joined the growing list of celebrities and politicians responding to the homosexual suicide epidemic and recorded a "You Can Get Better" video, that Exodus International will be using in one of their latest Public Service Announcements.

The nearly ubiquitous television, radio and outdoor advertising campaign is funded in large part by The Presidential Commission on Same-Sex Attraction Disorder (SSAD). The campaign urges parents to send their confused children to one of Exodus International's many, new camps that use the latest in government-approved scientific approaches to curing SSAD. "You can get better," says President McCain, "and Exodus International can help you."

Vice President John Boehner, who stepped-in after Sarah Palin's resignation, says that next year he plans to sit-down with Congress and write legislation allowing schools to identify students suffering from SSAD and require them to attend an Exodus International camp before being allowed to return to class.

[nofurylike]

1. gasp!! very effective post, Ian David. not unusual in our past. that

was nixon, ford, reagan, poopy shrub, and *shrub's policy.

it is imperative we continue to progress.

thank you for a very well made point.


peace and solidarity!

[Ian David]

2. Thanks! n/t

[Eryemil]

3. Fear-mongering bullshit

It couldn't be more obvious that is is yet another transparent attempt to make us misguided homos realize that Obama's the lesser of two evils. As if we weren't painfully aware of the fact.

[keepCAblue]

4. +1

[MNBrewer]

5. Agreed.

[Touchdown]

6. +1 Obama 2012. He's not as bad.

:woohoo:

[readmoreoften]

19. Except on civil liberties--where he's actually as bad or worse.

Since Obama has been in office, Kagan has ruled that speaking to or interviewing someone in a designated "terrorist" organization is providing material support. So he's taken the assault on civil liberties further than Bush even did without a peep from the anti-Bush enragees who just assume Obama is better on these things.

He's slightly less evil than a Republican on our issues (maybe, depending on the Republican) and as bad as they are on civil liberties. He's not as bad on economic issues but he's hardly "good." He's worse on education issues because a Republican could never get away with what he's doing.

Frankly, the Tea Party is the best thing that ever happened to the Democrats.

I'm surprised so many LGBT are still voting for Dems. But then again, where else are we going to go with the formal suppression of 3rd parties.

We need a Gay Equality Party.

[Ian David]

7. ...

[nofurylike]

8. i pray to goddess that people who are toting a right wing line to

sabotage this election never do end up finding out how much these warnings are sincere and NOT "fear-mongering bullshit."

many are unaware of just how terrorizingly more evil repukes really are.

[davidinalameda]

9. I think many of us are aware that our "allies" give us the same amount of support

for our issues that the "evil repukes" do

[nofurylike]

10. hmmm. R wanting you dead, versus D telling you to take the

marriage struggle to your own state because that is the law....

hmmm.
equally evil ... ?

wow.


*edit to add: they don't just WANT you dead, they have legislated that intent in the past, and will do so again, given the power to.

[MNBrewer]

11. Name one federal level elected R who wants to legislate the death penalty for homos

I can't think of one.

[davidinalameda]

13. you can think

that's the difference right there between you and...

[nofurylike]

16. wow, you read their minds?

which repukes are the ones who commend Uganda's new laws?

C street, et al has supported it? Dominionists want it here, and everywhere.

read freeper 'views' on it.

and, by the way, it's true that many more just want us tortured straight, and have used that torture in the past (learning it certainly doesn't make us straight, but does punish us severely), and will again given the power.

it is also true that lobotomizing us IS worse than killing us.

[Ian David]

21. James Inhoffe and the entire C-Street "The Family" cabal.

See also:

http://www.inlookout.com/2009/11/25/c-street-family-behind-ugandas-death-penalty-for-gays/

http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2010/09/22/republican-pollster-in-oregon-says-slaves-well-treated-advocates-death-for-gays/

[davidinalameda]

12. marriage is a state issue?

then why did your state sue the federal government in federal court over the federal law known as DOMA

[nofurylike]

15. we already had full marriage equality at that point. our

attorney general THEN decided to sue so that marriages would be recognized in other states.

THAT is HOW it will get accomplished.

thanks for asking.


peace

[Creideiki]

22. "Take the marriage struggle to your own state"

but don't think that the Federal Government will recognize the relationship. So no SSA/military survivor benefits, no inheritance exemption, keep paying the gay-couple tax (oops, I meant "imputed income for insurance benefits to same-sex partners"), blah, blah, etc., etc., et cetera ad infinitum.

There's absolutely no fury like telling someone else that their rights just aren't as important.

[nofurylike]

23. full repeal of DOMA is the goal. and, as a lesbian, this is

not about "someone else"'s rights. as a lesbian activist, it is about knowing a lot about these issues, and what is best for myself and my community.

'bye.

[Name removed]

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[davidinalameda]

14. at least people like McCain are honest about their bigotry

[readmoreoften]

18. +1: If a President doesn't defend my rights I don't really care anymore about if he's "less evil" in

his heart towards us. In the end does it really matter?

[Creideiki]

20. I'll only make a "non-response" here

Not going to get scapegoated or caught up in the next purge.