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in the last few months after Mitts uh... campaign aide admitted that Mitt was sort
of like an Etch-a-Sketch i've been thinking about how that relates to GLBT
rights and i would have to say that
every time that Etch-a-Sketch gets shaken up
Mitt gets worse
My name is Arthur Lipken
i'm from cambridge massachusetts, i've lived there my whole life, i'm a townie. i
think it's important for people who are
thinking about who to vote for for president
this year
not to be fooled by a pleasant exterior
and a cheerful demeanor,
but to look underneath
at what
Mitt Romney
has tried to do to people like me
when he was my governor
and since that time.
he has done everything
to dehumanize me and to take away my rights as a citizen
he opposed my rights to be married with every fiber of his being
and did everything in his power once marriages had begun
to turn back the clock
to bring down the curtain
and to lock the door
for any other couples who wanted to experience the same level of joy and
mutual commitment that my husband and i had.
i was so outraged by romney's involvement in attempting to uh...
get a referendum going so that
uh... people in massachusetts could vote on my rights and the rights of the rest
of my community for uh... equal marriage opportunity
and i remember coming to a rally at the state house that was pretty much a right
wing gathering and I sensed a launching pad for Mitts national political
ambitions
at which he held forth
uh... in the most vile way about gay and lesbian people and our lack of
rights and therefore our lack of humanity our second class citizenship.
I never
that my governor our governor
would stand on the steps of a festooned
state house with all of the official paraphernalia of the podium
the flags
and say
such hateful
disturbing things
It really got to me that day at the state, on the state house steps
and i raised my voice and i didn't
shut up until he stopped speaking
because it was just so abhorrent to me
that my governor would take
this opportunity
for what i thought to be his own political ambitions to demean me
and to demean my husband and to demean all my gay brothers and sisters
having seen mitt romney in massachusetts i thought he was at his worst
but i fear in watching him in his candidacy for president that met gets
worse and i have no hope that he would change
his mind and do an etch-a-sketch turnaround and suddenly become a
supporter
of our rights